TY  - GEN
T1  - The avowal of difference : queer Latino American narratives
T2  - Genders in the global south.
A1  - Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Ben
LA  - English
PP  - Albany, NY
PB  - SUNY Press
YR  - 2014
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn897117141
AB  - 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. Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui is Associate Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature: Genders Share Flesh.
OP  - 279
CN  - PQ7082.N7 S55 2014eb
SN  - 9781438454276
SN  - 1438454279
SN  - 9781438454252
SN  - 1438454252
SN  - 9781438454269
KW  - Spanish American fiction : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Homosexuality in literature.
KW  - Gay people in literature.
KW  - Roman hispano-américain : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Homosexualité dans la littérature.
KW  - Personnes homosexuelles dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : Spanish & Portuguese.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies
KW  - Gays in literature
KW  - Homosexuality in literature
KW  - Spanish American fiction
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -