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Tropics of Desire : Interventions from Queer Latino America / Jose A. Quiroga.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sexual Cultures ; 12Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780814769553
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.76608968
LOC classification:
  • HQ76.3.L29 Q57 2000
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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