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Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations

Autor Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 2016
What does it mean to queer a concept? If queerness is a notion that implies a destabilization of the normativity of the body, then all cultural systems contain zones of discomfort relevant to queer studies. What then might we make of such zones when the use of the term queer itself has transcended the fields of sex and gender, becoming a metaphor for addressing such cultural phenomena as hybridization, resignification, and subversion? Further still, what should we make of it when so many people are reluctant to use the term queer, because they view it as theoretical colonialism, or a concept that loses its specificity when applied to a culture that signifies and uses the body differently?Translating the Queer focuses on the dissemination of queer knowledge, concepts, and representations throughout Latin America, a migration that has been accompanied by concomitant processes of translation, adaptation, and epistemological resistance.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781783602926
ISBN-10: 1783602929
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: ZED BOOKS
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba is associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas, Austin. He is author of Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representationsof Masculinity, among other books.
 

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
 
Introduction: Troubles and travels of the queer
1. Queer decolonization
2.  Queerness and the nation in peripheral modernity
3. LGBT politics and culture
4. Beyond LGBT struggles: Trans politics and neoliberal sex
Conclusion
 
References
Index
 

Recenzii

“Ruvalcaba offers a concrete vision of queer resistance, one that it is not just a movement for gender liberation but also a transnational quest to decolonize the present. A must read for anyone grappling with queer politics in the Americas.”

“A profound work that will illuminate both how, through the figure of the queer, Latin Americanists should consider central concepts such as the nation, citizenship, and identity; and how queer theorists outside Latin America might envision a more thorough understanding of histories of the queer.”

“Ruvalcaba’s significant contribution to queer studies is a survey of the field’s more contemporary scholarship produced in Latin America and abroad. . . . Very useful for scholars looking to expand the exchanges between translation and queer theories.”

“There is much to be learned from Translating the Queer about socio-sexual processes in Latin America and the always-frayed fabric of the heterosexist project.”

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Examines how queer theory has migrated to and developed within Latin America and asks how far the queer can go as a conceptual tool.