"A vivid analysis of how many Latin Americans have crafted
alternative modes of understanding sexuality."
--"Hispanic American Historical Review"
From its sweaty beats to the pulsating music on the streets,
Latin/o America is perceived in the United States as the land of
heat, the toy store for Western sex. It is the territory of magical
fantasy and of revolutionary threat, where topography is the travel
guide of desire, directing imperial voyeurs to the exhibition of
the flesh.
Jose Quiroga flips the stereotype upside down: he shows how
Latin/o American lesbians and gay men have consistently eschewed
notions of sexual identity for a politics of intervention. In
Tropics of Desire, Quiroga reads hesitant Mexican poets as
sex-positive voices, he questions how outing and identity politics
can fall prey to the manipulations of the state, and explores how
invisibility has been used as a tactical tool in opposition to the
universal imperative to come out.
Drawing on diverse cultural examples such as the performance of
bolero and salsa, film, literature, and correspondence, and
influenced by masters like Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and a
rich tradition of Latin American stylists, Quiroga argues for a
politics that denies biological determinism and cannibalizes
cultural stereotypes for the sake of political action.
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