Translating the queer : body politics and transnational conversations / Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Domínguez Ruvalcaba, Héctor, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer theory--Latin America.

Queer theory.

Gender identity--Latin America.

Gender identity.

Gay culture--Latin America.

Gay culture.

Social change--Latin America.

Social change.

Sex--Political aspects.

Sex.

Latin America.

Sex--Political aspects--Latin America.

Physical Description:

x, 194 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Zed Books, [2016]

Summary:

What does it mean to queer a concept? If queerness is a notion that implies a destabilization of the normativity of the body, then all cultural systems contain zones of discomfort relevant to queer studies. What then might we make of such zones when the use of the term queer itself has transcended the fields of sex and gender, becoming a metaphor for addressing such cultural phenomena as hybridization, resignification, and subversion? Further still, what should we kane of it when so many people are, reluctant to use the term queer, because they view it as theoretical colonialism, or a concept that loses its specificity when applied to a culture that signifies and uses the body differently? Translating the Queer focuses on the dissemination of queer knowledge, concepts, and representations throughout Latin America, a migration that has been accompanied by concomitant processes of translation, adaptation, and epistemological resistance. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Troubles and travels of the queer 1

Latin American queer studies have been undertaken in a transnational dialogue, which implies a politics of cultural translation 3

Colonialism/decolonization is a tension implicit in the articulation of queer dissidences 8

Queerness has been associated with modernity in most twentieth-century debates on gender and sexuality 11

Queer is a methodology of critical thinking that by deconstructing the gender system questions the foundations of the nation and the state 14

The machineries of consumption and disposability of neoliberalism complicate the processes of body liberation and queer expressions 17

1 Queer decolonization 19

Coloniaiity and queerness: A discursive invasion 20

Queer colonial and translation 23

Reading the visceral 30

Centrality of the liminal 39

Conclusion 52

2 Queerness and the nation in peripheral modernity 55

The modern politics of the body 58

The aesthetic weapon of queerness 66

Knowing the queer 77

To cover and to uncover: From closet to scandal 82

Queer resistance 87

Conclusion 90

3 LGBT politics and culture 93

The libertarian age 95

Gay culture in Latin America 104

Coming out: Recurring asymmetries 110

Homophobia: The capital cause 118

The AIDS pandemic 123

Normalizing the queer 128

4 Beyond LGBT struggles: Trans politics and neoliberal sex 133

Trans talk 134

Queerness and the neoliberal order 154

Conclusion 165.

ISBN:

9781783602926

1783602929

OCLC:

944087265