Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox - Lgbt Language, New Media, and Visual Cultures in Modern-Day Brazil

Provides the first comprehensive discourse analysis of the dynamics and features of the largest LGBT Pride Parade in the world.

List of contents

Introduction: Pondering the Paradise of Paradox: LGBTI+ Culture in Brazil Today
Chapter 1. A Decade of Decadence: The Emergence of the Largest Gay Pride Parade on the Planet (1997 - 2006)
Chapter 2. Winter Carnaval fora de época?: Progression and Retrogression in São Paulo's LGBT Pride Parade (2007 - 2011)
Chapter 3. WhatsZapping the LGBT Pride Parade of São Paulo: Fake News and the (Ab)uses of Social Media Platforms in Digital Brazil (2012 - 2020)
Chapter 4. Looking Them Up (and Down): What (Homo)Sexuality Means in Brazilian Reference Works
Chapter 5. Translating Trans in Brazilian Culture
Chapter 6. Tracing the Trenches of the Travesti Travesty: Trans Photography and Artivism in Brazil
Chapter 7. (For)Getting Far Away from Home: Cinematic Representations of 21st-Century (LGB)Trans Brazil
Chapter 8. What's Queer Got to do With It? Queernormativity and Heterobrasilidade in Brazil's Queermuseu
Epilogue: The (R)evolving Closet Door in LGBT Brazil
Appendix: The Queer-stionnaire
Notes
Bibliography

About the author

Steven F. Butterman is Associate Professor of Portuguese and Director of the Portuguese Language Program at the University of Miami, where he has also directed the Women's and Gender Studies program, served as coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Studies programs and developed the minor in LGBTQ Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Steven F. Butterman
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781538150887
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5088-7
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Latin America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Caribbean islands, Politics & government, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Gay & Lesbian studies / LGBTQ studies, Latin America - Mexico, Central America, South America, Gender studies: transgender, transsexual, intersex people, Gender studies: transgender & intersex