Tropics of Desire : Interventions from Queer Latino America / Jose A. Quiroga.
2000
HQ76.3.L29 Q57 2000
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Title
Tropics of Desire : Interventions from Queer Latino America / Jose A. Quiroga.
Author
Quiroga, Jose A., author.
ISBN
9780814769553
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2000]
Copyright
©2000
Language
English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814769553.001.0001 doi
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HQ76.3.L29 Q57 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.76608968
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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Sexual Cultures ; ; 12
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Table of 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
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