Decolonizing the sodomite : queer tropes of sexuality in colonial Andean culture / Michael J. Horswell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horswell, Michael J. (Michael Jenkins), 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Male homosexuality--Andes Region--History.

Male homosexuality.

Male homosexuality--Spain--History.

Sex customs--Andes Region--History.

Sex customs.

Sex customs--Spain--History.

Indians of South America--Sexual behavior--Andes Region.

Indians of South America.

Indians of South America--Colonization--Andes Region.

Incas--Sexual behavior.

Incas.

Indian gay people--Andes Region--History.

Indian gay people.

Indian gay people--Sexual behavior--Andes Region.

Spain--Colonies--America.

Spain.

Spain--Foreign relations--Andes Region.

Andes Region--Foreign relations--Spain.

Andes Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, c2005.

Summary:

Early Andean historiography reveals a subaltern history of indigenous gender and sexuality that saw masculinity and femininity not as essential absolutes. Third-gender ritualists, Ipas, mediated between the masculine and feminine spheres of culture in important ceremonies and were recorded in fragments of myths and transcribed oral accounts. Ritual performance by cross-dressed men symbolically created a third space of mediation that invoked the mythic androgyne of the pre-Hispanic Andes. The missionaries and civil authorities colonizing the Andes deemed these performances transgressive and sodomitical. In this book, Michael J. Horswell examines alternative gender and sexuality in the colonial Andean world, and uses the concept of the third gender to reconsider some fundamental paradigms of Andean culture. By deconstructing what literary tropes of sexuality reveal about Andean pre-Hispanic and colonial indigenous culture, he provides an alternative history and interpretation of the much-maligned aboriginal subjects the Spanish often referred to as "sodomites." Horswell traces the origin of the dominant tropes of masculinist sexuality from canonical medieval texts to early modern Spanish secular and moralist literature produced in the context of material persecution of effeminates and sodomites in Spain. These values traveled to the Andes and were used as powerful rhetorical weapons in the struggle to justify the conquest of the Incas.

Contents:

Introduction: Transculturating tropes of sexuality, tinkuy, and third gender in the Andes

Barbudos, afeminados, and sodomitas : performing masculinity in premodern Spain

Decolonizing queer tropes of sexuality : chronicles and myths of conquest

From supay huaca to queer mother : revaluing the Andean feminine and androgyne

Church and state : inventing queer penitents and tyrannical others

Subaltern hybridity? : Inca Garcilaso and the transculturation of gender and sexuality in the Comentarios reales

Dancing the tinkuy, mediating difference.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-321) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79624-2

OCLC:

652327608