There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or
standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how
those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority
culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary
works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural
purposes. Muñoz calls this process “disidentification,” and
through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on
minority performance, survival, and activism.Disidentifications is
also something of a performance in its own right, an attempt to
fashion a queer world by working on, with, and against dominant
ideology. By examining the process of identification in the work of
filmmakers, performance artists, ethnographers, Cuban choteo, forms
of gay male mass culture (such as pornography), museums, art
photography, camp and drag, and television, Muñoz persistently
points to the intersecting and short-circuiting of identities and
desires that result from misalignments with the cultural and
ideological mainstream in contemporary urban America.Muñoz calls
attention to the world-making properties found in performances by
queers of color—in Carmelita Tropicana’s “Camp/Choteo”
style politics, Marga Gomez’s performances of queer childhood,
Vaginal Creme Davis’s “Terrorist Drag,” Isaac Julien’s
critical melancholia, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s disidentification
with Andy Warhol and pop art, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s
performances of “disidentity,” and the political performance of
Pedro Zamora, a person with AIDS, within the otherwise artificial
environment of the MTV serialThe Real World.
General
Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Cultural Studies of the Americas |
Release date: |
May 1999 |
Firstpublished: |
May 1999 |
Authors: |
José Esteban Muñoz
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Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
227 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8166-3015-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
General
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
0-8166-3015-1 |
Barcode: |
9780816630158 |
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