Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice: Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment
Autor Ramón E. Soto-Crespoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 sep 2023
How should we understand the bugarrón, a man who has sex with other men while regarding himself as heterosexual? Reaching beyond queer and gay studies, Ramón E. Soto-Crespo’s research suggests that this paradoxical figure mutated into what he calls the “neobugarrón,” a neoliberal market-oriented actor who used the traditional sexual practice as an optimizing strategy for manipulating the forces of globalization during the 1990s. In Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice, Soto-Crespo chronicles the cultural modifications of bugarrón, a distinct male-male sexual practice in Latin/o America and the Caribbean, during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Working with and against Foucault and Kinsey to examine diverse works from anthropology, literature, cinema, and social media, he investigates a wide array of bugarrón sources, ranging from previously underexamined multimedia to ethnographies, fiction, films, and beyond. These works constitute a neobugarrón archive and attest to a sexual practice currently metamorphosing on the cusp of extinction. Soto-Crespo’s analysis challenges conventional understandings of “heteroflexible” sex between men and reveals a hitherto unnoticed transformation in neoliberal ecologies of bugarrón sexual practice.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814258859
ISBN-10: 0814258859
Pagini: 210
Ilustrații: 11 b&w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment
ISBN-10: 0814258859
Pagini: 210
Ilustrații: 11 b&w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment
Recenzii
“A timely and thought-provoking contribution to queer studies literature ... Neobugarrón, an accessibly written book, is highly recommended for course adoption. ... [It] will undoubtedly provoke in-class deliberations as well as significantly inform future scholarship.” —Richard Mora, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
“This book breaks open the cramped container of our current sexual categories, revealing the expanse of possibilities that circulate outside the limits of identity. Soto-Crespo’s provocative analysis clearly shows that sexual subjectivities are interpretive projects with unpredictable relationships to the very sex acts they intend to signify. Most exciting among the book’s many contributions to queer studies is its attention to the fact that even nebulous sexualities have external stakeholders, from epidemiologists to filmmakers to sex tourism consumers. A beautiful intervention into Global North sexual categories and their occlusions.” —Jane Ward, author of Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men
“This book documents a rarely discussed figure within the twists and turns of male–male sex. Straddling the divides between homo- and heterosexual, active and passive, the bugarrón was an ostensibly heterosexual man who had sex with other men as a masculine dominant. The neobugarrón is Soto-Crespo’s name for the commodification of gay male sex through this figure within neoliberalism. The book is a fascinating read for everyone interested in sex, pleasure and capital.” —Jack Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity
“This book makes generous work of situating itself in critical and scholarly contexts that contribute to a wide variety of ongoing conversations. Soto-Crespo’s case studies of practicing sex workers and close readings of a range of cultural texts make this book both unique and powerfully interdisciplinary.” —Ricardo L. Ortiz, author of Cultural Erotics in Cuban America
“Soto-Crespo sets the stage for a complete rethinking of nonidentitarian, anomalous sexual practices in the Caribbean. Striking the right balance between rigor and provocativeness, gruesomeness and levity, and ambition and evidence, his book is destined to become a canonical work.” —Melba Vélez Ortiz, author of Maatian Ethics in a Communication Context
Notă biografică
Ramón E. Soto-Crespo is Professor of English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction and Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico.
Extras
Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice chronicles the cultural modifications of a distinct male–male sexual practice in Latino/a America and the Caribbean during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Historically this practice has been embodied in the figure of the bugarrón, an ostensibly heterosexual man who has sex with other men but who is presumed to take the dominant role exclusively. An ambiguous figure, the bugarrón—who is neither clearly gay nor simply straight—has for decades eluded comprehension by anthropologists and epidemiologists, as well as by public policy experts in the Americas and around the globe. A host of local terms describe practitioners of bugarrón sex in different parts of the Americas: cacheros (Costa Rica), mayates (Mexico), hombres normales (Argentina and Chile), and bugarrónes (Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic). During the late 1980s, bugarrón sexual practice was problematized in public debates over HIV/AIDS prevention and health risks. Surveillance of bugarrón practitioners intensified because they were typically regarded as a troubling vector of HIV transmission between heterosexual and homosexual communities.
My research suggests that this ambiguous entity mutated into what I am calling the neobugarrón, a neoliberal market-oriented actor who used the traditional sexual practice as an optimizing strategy for manipulating the forces of globalization during the 1990s. Now, at a crucial historical juncture when some version of LGBTQ rights has been expanded across the Western hemisphere, the bugarrón has become a virtually extinct category. Bugarrón activity may still take place occasionally, but the term’s former signification is disappearing from cultural use. Today, more often than not, the term bugarrón refers to men who sell sex to gay tourists. Just as a simulacrum displaces the real, so has the neobugarrón displaced the bugarrón. I contend that sexual practices that did not develop into a unique sexual “identity” have a history worth documenting, especially as their traces in our contemporary world are disappearing. It is necessary to record this Latin American sexual practice as it is poised on the cusp of extinction. This book chronicles the twists and turns of a failed understanding of male–male sexuality, while also providing an account of how the neobugarrón is key for comprehending the relationship between capital and sexuality in the Americas.
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This project has been influenced by works in queer studies that analyze shifting sexual arrangements. While queer scholarship has provided some frameworks for understanding a nonexclusive sexual practice in Latin America, bugarrón as a discarded sexual type does not fit these interpretive models very well. Instead of arguing that transvaluation of failure into success is something that “queers” excel in doing, this book reconsiders methodological mishaps, ethnographic misreadings, historical gaps, cinematic absences, and their various interpretations as opportunities for thinking discursive blindness. It is necessary to revisit the historical, theoretical, and philosophical work of George Chauncey, Arnold I. Davidson, Michel Foucault, Alfred J. Kinsey, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in order to recover an ethics for interpreting discarded concepts and vanishing ways of thinking about sexual practices. In his lectures Subjectivity and Truth (2017), Foucault differentiated anthropology and ethnography from the kind of thinking about sex that drives his project. He argues that his work should be understood as “the history not of sexual behavior, of sexual practices, but of reflection on sexual practices.” A historian does not have access to sexual practices themselves, only to discourses that reflect on those practices. Reflecting on sexual practices means for him thinking through “the way in which sexual practices emerge within a cultural or normative consciousness.” Neobugarrón seeks to reflect on the ways in which a neobugarrón subjectivity emerges in discourses of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whereas traditionally bugarrón stood for a type, a figure, constructed from a sexual practice, neobugarrón reflects the self-packaging, or self-making, of a neoliberal subjectivity.
My research suggests that this ambiguous entity mutated into what I am calling the neobugarrón, a neoliberal market-oriented actor who used the traditional sexual practice as an optimizing strategy for manipulating the forces of globalization during the 1990s. Now, at a crucial historical juncture when some version of LGBTQ rights has been expanded across the Western hemisphere, the bugarrón has become a virtually extinct category. Bugarrón activity may still take place occasionally, but the term’s former signification is disappearing from cultural use. Today, more often than not, the term bugarrón refers to men who sell sex to gay tourists. Just as a simulacrum displaces the real, so has the neobugarrón displaced the bugarrón. I contend that sexual practices that did not develop into a unique sexual “identity” have a history worth documenting, especially as their traces in our contemporary world are disappearing. It is necessary to record this Latin American sexual practice as it is poised on the cusp of extinction. This book chronicles the twists and turns of a failed understanding of male–male sexuality, while also providing an account of how the neobugarrón is key for comprehending the relationship between capital and sexuality in the Americas.
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This project has been influenced by works in queer studies that analyze shifting sexual arrangements. While queer scholarship has provided some frameworks for understanding a nonexclusive sexual practice in Latin America, bugarrón as a discarded sexual type does not fit these interpretive models very well. Instead of arguing that transvaluation of failure into success is something that “queers” excel in doing, this book reconsiders methodological mishaps, ethnographic misreadings, historical gaps, cinematic absences, and their various interpretations as opportunities for thinking discursive blindness. It is necessary to revisit the historical, theoretical, and philosophical work of George Chauncey, Arnold I. Davidson, Michel Foucault, Alfred J. Kinsey, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in order to recover an ethics for interpreting discarded concepts and vanishing ways of thinking about sexual practices. In his lectures Subjectivity and Truth (2017), Foucault differentiated anthropology and ethnography from the kind of thinking about sex that drives his project. He argues that his work should be understood as “the history not of sexual behavior, of sexual practices, but of reflection on sexual practices.” A historian does not have access to sexual practices themselves, only to discourses that reflect on those practices. Reflecting on sexual practices means for him thinking through “the way in which sexual practices emerge within a cultural or normative consciousness.” Neobugarrón seeks to reflect on the ways in which a neobugarrón subjectivity emerges in discourses of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whereas traditionally bugarrón stood for a type, a figure, constructed from a sexual practice, neobugarrón reflects the self-packaging, or self-making, of a neoliberal subjectivity.
Cuprins
Introduction Chapter 1 Anthropologies of Lust: Deployment of Bugarrón Surveillance Chapter 2 The Neobugarrón: A Lesson in Neoliberalism and Biopolitics Chapter 3 Bugarrón Cinema: A Disturbance in the Field of Vision Chapter 4 Mundo Cruel: The Neobugarrón in Literature Conclusion
Descriere
Confounds conventional assumptions of “heteroflexible” sex between men by chronicling the transformation of the bugarrón into the neobugarrón, a neoliberal, market-oriented sexual actor.