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Tropics of Desire : Interventions from Queer Latino America / Jose Quiroga.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quiroga, Jose, 1959- author.
- Series:
- Sexual Cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality.
- Homosexuality and literature--Latin America.
- Homosexuality and literature.
- Homosexuality--Latin America.
- Gay people--Latin America--Identity.
- Gay people.
- Gay people--Latin America.
- Gay people--Identity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : New York University Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The mask of the letter
- Nostalgia for sex : Xavier Villaurrutia
- Queer desires in Lydia Cabrera
- Outing silence as code : Virgilio Pine͠ra
- Revolution : strawberry and chocolate
- Tears at the nightclub
- Latino dolls
- Latino cultures, imperial sexualities.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-273) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814769553 (electronic book)
- 9780814769546
- 0814769543
- 9780814769553
- 0814769551
- 9780585480428
- 0585480427
- OCLC:
- 779828276
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