Fatherhood in the borderlands : a daughter's slow approach
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In the borderlands between the white US cultural mainstream and Mexican American cultural productions, this book concerns itself not with the liberation but with the legibility of Mexican American fathers in literature and film. Few works focus exclusively on Brown fathers in the borderlands. This study focuses on the slow interplay of form, genre, and subject that determines the roles these fathers are allowed to occupy in the cultural imaginary. From arts and exercise to parenting and educational practices, slow, as a multivalent ideology, has taken shape over the last thirty years. It encourages us to think about the generative possibility of cultural or structural transformation. Rather than a temporal designation or an assessment of the rate of output, specifically within the context of the neoliberal academy, slow research emphasizes the interconnectedness of research and knowledge formation, particularly when derived from sources that are gendered, classed, and racialized. Stated another way, slow research strives to lay bare how research is "made.""--,Provided by publisher.