TY  - BOOK
AU  - Quiroga,Jose A.
AU  - Piñera,Virgilio
AU  - Villaurrutia,Xavier
TI  - Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America 
T2  - Sexual Cultures
SN  - 9780814769553
AV  - HQ76.3.L29 Q57 2000 
U1  - 306.76608968 
PY  - 2000///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Gays
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Identity
KW  - Homosexuality and literature
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Preface: In Drag --; Introduction --; 1 The Mask of the Letter --; 2 Nostalgia for Sex --; 3 Queer Desires in Lydia Cabrera --; 4 Outing Silence --; 5 Revolution --; 6 Tears at the Nightclub --; 7 Latino Dolls --; 8 Latino Cultures, Imperial Sexualities --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Index --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; restricted access
N2  - From its sweaty beats to the pulsating music on the streets, Latin/o America is perceived in the United States as the land of heat, the toy store for Western sex. It is the territory of magical fantasy and of revolutionary threat, where topography is the travel guide of desire, directing imperial voyeurs to the exhibition of the flesh. Jose Quiroga flips the stereotype upside down: he shows how Latin/o American lesbians and gay men have consistently eschewed notions of sexual identity for a politics of intervention. In Tropics of Desire, Quiroga reads hesitant Mexican poets as sex-positive voices, he questions how outing and identity politics can fall prey to the manipulations of the state, and explores how invisibility has been used as a tactical tool in opposition to the universal imperative to come out. Drawing on diverse cultural examples such as the performance of bolero and salsa, film, literature, and correspondence, and influenced by masters like Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and a rich tradition of Latin American stylists, Quiroga argues for a politics that denies biological determinism and cannibalizes cultural stereotypes for the sake of political action
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814769553.001.0001
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814769553
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814769553/original
ER  -