November 20, 2014
All Day
Ohio Union Multicultural Center
Dr. Ana Lopez, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Director of the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute at Tulane University gives a talk titled “Latinas Made to Serve? Feeling Brown, Glam …and a Maid”. This talk will explore how recent films and television series have glamourized and simultaneously complicated the representation of Latina domestic service. Arguing that we need to unpack and trouble the complex relationships among agency, representation and melodrama condensed in the figure of the contemporary Latina maid, my talk will focus primarily on the Lifetime series Devious Maids (Seasons 1 & 2, 2013 - 2014) but will also reference the earlier films Spanglish (James L. Brooks, 2004) and Maid in Manhattan (Wayne Wang, 2002) and other recent TV series.
