Performing Queer Latinidad highlights the critical role that
performance played in the development of Latina/o queer public
culture during the 1990s and early 2000s. The book charts Latina/o
cultural affinities or latinidad in queer spaces in the United
States over a 15-year period that saw a dramatic increase in the
size and influence of the Latina/o population along with the
growing scrutiny of the public spaces where latinidad could
circulate. Performing Queer Latinidad argues that
performances---from concert dance and street protest to the
choreographic strategies deployed by dancers at nightclubs---served
as critical meeting points and practices through which LGBT and
other non-normative sex practitioners of Latin American descent
(individuals with greatly differing cultures, histories of
migration or annexation to the United States, and contemporary
living conditions) encountered each other and forged social,
cultural, and political bonds. At a time when latinidad ascended to
the national public sphere in mainstream commercial and political
venues and Latina/o public space was increasingly threatened by the
re-development of urban centers and a revived anti-immigrant
campaign, queer Latinas/os in places such as the Bronx, San
Antonio, Austin, Phoenix, and Rochester, N.Y., returned to
performance to claim spaces and ways of being that allowed their
queerness and latinidad to coexist. These social events of
performance and their attendant aesthetic communication strategies
served as critical sites and tactics for creating and sustaining
queer latinidad.
General
| Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance |
| Release date: |
October 2012 |
| First published: |
October 2012 |
| Authors: |
Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
272 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-472-05139-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-472-05139-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780472051397 |
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