In your description of the "Feminist Visions," you state that the one room dedicated to feminist art was filled with images of reproduction. Do you believe that the placement of the room and the subject matter was a detriment or fallback to the Chicana movement?
In the essay, you describe how the "Feminist Visions" room was also placed in between "Reclaiming the Past" and "Redefining American Art." Like you stated, I was wondering if the symbolism of this would just reinforce the typical view of women as links between the past and future. Then, when you add in the amount of art that was dedicated to pregnancy, it reinforces that idea. Therefore, my question stems from the concern that many of the visitors of the art gallery may have put these ideas together and believed that women are not fighting to get past the idea of being mothers. This way they would not be aware of the steps forward of the movement.
There's No Place Like Aztlan: Embodied Aesthetics in Chicana Art
In the essay, there is a section in which you talk about "beyond identity." How does this directly tie into the idea of Aztlan as homeland?
Bhabha states that the spaces in between "race + gender + class + sexuality + language + generation + nation-ality (and/or place of origin) + religion + political identity + vocation + edu-cation + anything else that might signify the self" are the things that establish identity. Therefore, I was wondering, because Aztlan isn't a real place, if it would fit in between any of these sections in establishing identity.
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