The Avowal of Difference - Queer Latino American Narratives

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui, Ben. Sifuentes-Jauregui, Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2014
• EAN: 9781438454252
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-5425-2
• No. of pages: 279
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Suny Series, Genders in the Gl; Suny Series, Genders in the Gl
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Amerika, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Ethnic Issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American