{"product_id":"migrating-like-a-queen-1","title":"Migrating Like a Queen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn imaginative exploration of queer and trans Latinx migrant survival, examining literature, film, and performance to challenge normative constructions of citizenship and belonging.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQueer and trans migrants in the US face persistent fictions depicting them as powerless. Through the lens of \"impossible possibilities,\" what Ruben Zecena defines as a space between the possible and impossible, the book presents a complex account of undocumented migrants that goes beyond good and bad dichotomies expressed by the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMigrating like a Queen\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the joy, fabulosity, glamour, and complex desires of queer and trans Latinx migrants in the context of dehumanizing legal and representational structures. Analyzing a rich archive of twenty-first century media and literature, Ruben Zecena reveals how individuals use imagination as a vehicle to envision a reality that pushes against the constraints of narrative tropes created by the nation-state. The book foregrounds work by and about queer and trans Latinx migrants, including Alexandra DeRuiz, tatiana de la tierra, Sonia Guiñansaca, and Julián Delgado Lopera, illustrating the defining of a movement. Engaging multiple genres and forms, from testimonio to the bildungsroman, this book is a testament to the ever-shifting cultural strategies of survival that seize power from systems of subjection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57504947667317,"sku":"9781477335260","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781477335260.jpg?v=1786953866","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/migrating-like-a-queen-1","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}