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A Taste for Brown Bodies - Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire (Hardcover)
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A Taste for Brown Bodies - Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire (Hardcover)
Series: Sexual Cultures
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Winner, LGBT Studies Lammy Award presented by Lambda Literary
Neither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the
role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In A Taste
for Brown Bodies, Hiram Perez traces the development of gay
modernity and its continued romanticization of the brown body.
Focusing in particular on three figures with elusive queer
histories-the sailor, the soldier, and the cowboy- Perez unpacks
how each has been memorialized and desired for their heroic
masculinity while at the same time functioning as agents for the
expansion of the US borders and neocolonial zones of influence.
Describing an enduring homonationalism dating to the "birth" of the
homosexual in the late 19th century, Perez considers not only how
US imperialist expansion was realized, but also how it was
visualized for and through gay men. By means of an analysis of
literature, film, and photographs from the 19th to the 21st
centuries-including Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Anne Proulx's
"Brokeback Mountain," and photos of abuse at the Abu Ghraib
prison-Perez proposes that modern gay male identity, often traced
to late Victorian constructions of "invert" and "homosexual,"
occupies not the periphery of the nation but rather a cosmopolitan
position, instrumental to projects of war, colonialism, and
neoliberalism. A Taste for Brown Bodies argues that practices and
subjectivities that we understand historically as forms of
homosexuality have been regulated and normalized as an extension of
the US nation-state, laying bare the tacit, if complex,
participation of gay modernity within US imperialism.
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