Sifuentes-Jáuregui The Avowal of Difference

Queer Latino American Narratives
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5427-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Genders in the Global South

Discusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Ben.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Written Through a Body

Part 1. Unwriting the Self

1. Modernismo, Masochism and Queer Potential in Nervo’s El bachiller

2. Queer Losses in Barbachano Ponce’s El diario de José Toledo

3. Adonis’s Silence: Textual Queerness in Zapata’s El vampiro de la colonia Roma

Part 2. Interventions

4. Epistemerotics: Puig, Queer Subjects, and Writing Desire

5. La Manuela’s Return: Transvestism/Identifiction/the Abject in Lemebel’s Loco afán

Part 3. The Body Politic

6. Homosexuality, Disavowal, and Pedagogy in Vargas Llosa’s Los cachorros

7. Sadomasochism in Paradiso: Bound Narratives and Pleasure

8. On the Homo-Baroque: Queering Sarduy’s Baroque Genealogies

Part 4. Queer Latina/o Narratives

9. Queer Latinidad: Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets and Díaz’s Drown

10. Traveling North, Translating Queerness: Rivera-Valdés and the Trouble with Discipline

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui is Associate Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature: Genders Share Flesh.