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The Avowal of Difference

By Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui

The Avowal of Difference

By Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui

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Discusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.The Avowal of Difference explores the potentialities and limitations that queer theory offers in the context of Latino American texts and subjects. Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui contrasts Latino American sexual genealogies with the Anglo-European "coming out" narrative-and interrogates the centrality of the "coming out" story as the regulating metaphor for gay, lesbian, or queer identities. In its place, the book looks at other strategies-from silence to circumlocution, from disavowal to indifference-to theorize queer subject formation in a Latino American cultural context. The analysis of texts by José Lezama Lima, Luis Zapata, Manuel Puig, Severo Sarduy, Junot Díaz, and others offers a comparative approach to understanding how queer sexualities are shaped and written in other cultural contexts.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
292
Release Date:
2015-07-02
Publication Date:
2015-07-02
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1438454260
ISBN13:
9781438454269
Weight:
478 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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