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The contributors to Turning Archival trace the rise of "the
archive" as an object of historical desire and study within queer
studies and examine how it fosters historical imagination and
knowledge. Highlighting the growing significance of the archival to
LGBTQ scholarship, politics, and everyday life, they draw upon
accounts of queer archival encounters in institutional, grassroots,
and everyday repositories of historical memory. The contributors
examine such topics as the everyday life of marginalized queer
immigrants in New York City as an archive; secondhand vinyl record
collecting and punk bootlegs; the self-archiving practices of
grassroots lesbians; and the decolonial potential of absences and
gaps in the colonial archives through the life of a suspected
hermaphrodite in colonial Guatemala. Engaging with archives from
Africa to the Americas to the Arctic, this volume illuminates the
allure of the archive, reflects on that which resists archival
capture, and outlines the stakes of queer and trans lives in the
archival turn. Contributors. Anjali Arondekar, Kate Clark, Ann
Cvetkovich, Carolyn Dinshaw, Kate Eichhorn, Javier
Fernandez-Galeano, Emmett Harsin Drager, Elliot James, Marget Long,
Martin F. Manalansan IV, Daniel Marshall, Maria Elena Martinez,
Joan Nestle, Ivan Ramos, David Serlin, Zeb Tortorici
"Queering Archives: Intimate Tracings" is the second of two themed
issues from Radical History Review (numbers 120 and 122) that
explore the ways in which the notion of the "queer archive" is
increasingly crucial for scholars working at the intersection of
history, sexuality, and gender. Efforts to record and preserve
queer experiences determine how scholars account for the past and
provide a framework for understanding contemporary queer life.
Essays in these issues consider historical materials from queer
archives around the world as well as the recent critical practice
of "queering" the archive by looking at historical collections for
queer content (and its absence). This issue considers how archives
allow historical traces of sexuality and gender to be sought,
identified, recorded, and assembled into accumulations of meaning.
Contributors explore conundrums in contemporary queer archival
methods, probing some of them in essays on the Catholic Church and
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This issue also
includes a series of intergenerational interviews reflecting on
histories of LGBT archives, a roundtable discussion about legacies
of queer studies of the archive, and a closing reflection by Joan
Nestle, a founding figure in the practice of international queer
archiving. Daniel Marshall is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of
Arts and Education at Deakin University, Melbourne. Kevin P. Murphy
is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota
and a member of the Radical History Review editorial collective.
Zeb Tortorici is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Languages and Literatures at New York University. Contributors:
Rustem Ertug Altinay, Anjali Arondekar, Elspeth H. Brown, Elise
Chenier, Howard Chiang, Ben Cowan, Ann Cvetkovich, Sara Davidmann,
Leah DeVun, Peter Edelberg, Licia Fiol-Matta, Jack Jen Gieseking,
Christina Hanhardt, Robb Hernandez, Kwame Holmes, Regina Kunzel, A.
J. Lewis, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Maria Elena Martinez, Michael
Jay McClure, Caitlin McKinney, Katherine Mohrman, Joan Nestle, Mimi
Thi Nguyen, Tavia Nyong'o, Anthony M. Petro, K. J. Rawson, Barry
Reay, Juana Maria Rodriguez, Don Romesburg, Rebecka Sheffield, Marc
Stein, Margaret Stone, Susan Stryker, Robert Summers, Jeanne
Vaccaro, Dale Washkansky, Melissa White
The contributors to Turning Archival trace the rise of "the
archive" as an object of historical desire and study within queer
studies and examine how it fosters historical imagination and
knowledge. Highlighting the growing significance of the archival to
LGBTQ scholarship, politics, and everyday life, they draw upon
accounts of queer archival encounters in institutional, grassroots,
and everyday repositories of historical memory. The contributors
examine such topics as the everyday life of marginalized queer
immigrants in New York City as an archive; secondhand vinyl record
collecting and punk bootlegs; the self-archiving practices of
grassroots lesbians; and the decolonial potential of absences and
gaps in the colonial archives through the life of a suspected
hermaphrodite in colonial Guatemala. Engaging with archives from
Africa to the Americas to the Arctic, this volume illuminates the
allure of the archive, reflects on that which resists archival
capture, and outlines the stakes of queer and trans lives in the
archival turn. Contributors. Anjali Arondekar, Kate Clark, Ann
Cvetkovich, Carolyn Dinshaw, Kate Eichhorn, Javier
Fernandez-Galeano, Emmett Harsin Drager, Elliot James, Marget Long,
Martin F. Manalansan IV, Daniel Marshall, Maria Elena Martinez,
Joan Nestle, Ivan Ramos, David Serlin, Zeb Tortorici
This issue offers a theoretical and methodological imagining of
what constitutes trans* before the advent of the terms that
scholars generally look to for the formation of modern conceptions
of gender, sex, and sexuality. What might we find if we look for
trans* before trans*? While some historians have rejected the
category of transgender to speak of experiences before the
mid-twentieth century, others have laid claim to those living
gender-non-conforming lives before our contemporary era. By using
the concept of trans*historicity, this volume draws together trans*
studies, historical inquiry, and queer temporality while also
emphasizing the historical specificity and variability of gendered
systems of embodiment in different time periods. Essay topics
include a queer analysis of medieval European saints, discussions
of a nineteenth-century Russian religious sect, an exploration of a
third gender in early modern Japanese art, a reclamation of Ojibwe
and Plains Cree Two-Spirit language, and biopolitical genealogies
and filmic representations of transsexuality. The issue also
features a roundtable discussion on trans*historicities and an
interview with the creators of the 2015 film Deseos. Critiquing
both progressive teleologies and the idea of sex or gender as a
timeless tradition, this issue articulates our own desires for
trans history, trans*historicities, and queerly temporal forms of
historical narration. Contributors. Kadji Amin, M. W. Bychowski,
Fernanda Carvajal, Howard Chiang, Leah DeVun, Julian Gill-Peterson,
Jack Halberstam, Asato Ikeda, Jacob Lau, Kathleen P. Long, Maya
Mikdashi, Robert Mills, Carlos Motta, Marcia Ochoa, Kai Pyle, C.
Riley Snorton, Zeb Tortorici, Jennifer Louise Wilson
In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of
sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the
US Southwest, and the Philippines) to examine the multiple ways
bodies and desires come to be textually recorded and archived.
Drawing on the records from over three hundred criminal and
Inquisition cases between 1530 and 1821, Tortorici shows how the
secular and ecclesiastical courts deployed the term contra
natura-against nature-to try those accused of sodomy, bestiality,
masturbation, erotic religious visions, priestly solicitation of
sex during confession, and other forms of "unnatural" sex. Archival
traces of the visceral reactions of witnesses, the accused,
colonial authorities, notaries, translators, and others in these
records demonstrate the primacy of affect and its importance to the
Spanish documentation and regulation of these sins against nature.
In foregrounding the logic that dictated which crimes were recorded
and how they are mediated through the colonial archive, Tortorici
recasts Iberian Atlantic history through the prism of the unnatural
while showing how archives destabilize the bodies, desires, and
social categories on which the history of sexuality is based.
Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America brings
together a broad community of scholars to explore the history of
illicit and alternative sexualities in Latin America's colonial and
early national periods. Together the essays examine how "the
unnatural" came to inscribe certain sexual acts and desires as
criminal and sinful, including acts officially deemed to be
"against nature" - sodomy, bestiality, and masturbation - along
with others that approximated the unnatural - hermaphroditism,
incest, sex with the devil, solicitation in the confessional,
erotic religious visions, and the desecration of holy images. In
doing so, this anthology makes important and necessary
contributions to the historiography of gender and sexuality. Amid
the growing politicized interest in broader LGBTQ movements in
Latin America, the essays also show how these legal codes endured
to make their way into post - independence Latin America.
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality,
ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of
ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for
supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span
the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United
States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the
contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the
creation of race and colonialism as well as archival and
ethnographic knowledge. Among other topics, they analyze
eighteenth-century European travelogues, photography and the
sexualization of African and African American women,
representations of sodomy throughout the Ottoman empire, racialized
representations in a Brazilian gay pornographic magazine, colonial
desire in the 2007 pornographic film Gaytanamo, the relationship
between sexual desire and ethnographic fieldwork in Africa and
Australia, and Franciscan friars' voyeuristic accounts of
indigenous people's "sinful" activities. Outlining how in the
ethnopornographic encounter the reader or viewer imagines direct
contact with the Other from a distance, the contributors trace
ethnopornography's role in creating racial categories and its
grounding in the relationship between colonialism and the erotic
gaze. In so doing, they theorize ethnography as a form of
pornography that is both motivated by the desire to render knowable
the Other and invested with institutional power. Contributors.
Joseph A. Boone, Pernille Ipsen, Sidra Lawrence, Beatrix McBride,
Mireille Miller-Young, Bryan Pitts, Helen Pringle, Pete Sigal, Zeb
Tortorici, Neil L. Whitehead
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality,
ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of
ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for
supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span
the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United
States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the
contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the
creation of race and colonialism as well as archival and
ethnographic knowledge. Among other topics, they analyze
eighteenth-century European travelogues, photography and the
sexualization of African and African American women,
representations of sodomy throughout the Ottoman empire, racialized
representations in a Brazilian gay pornographic magazine, colonial
desire in the 2007 pornographic film Gaytanamo, the relationship
between sexual desire and ethnographic fieldwork in Africa and
Australia, and Franciscan friars' voyeuristic accounts of
indigenous people's "sinful" activities. Outlining how in the
ethnopornographic encounter the reader or viewer imagines direct
contact with the Other from a distance, the contributors trace
ethnopornography's role in creating racial categories and its
grounding in the relationship between colonialism and the erotic
gaze. In so doing, they theorize ethnography as a form of
pornography that is both motivated by the desire to render knowable
the Other and invested with institutional power. Contributors.
Joseph A. Boone, Pernille Ipsen, Sidra Lawrence, Beatrix McBride,
Mireille Miller-Young, Bryan Pitts, Helen Pringle, Pete Sigal, Zeb
Tortorici, Neil L. Whitehead
In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of
sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the
US Southwest, and the Philippines) to examine the multiple ways
bodies and desires come to be textually recorded and archived.
Drawing on the records from over three hundred criminal and
Inquisition cases between 1530 and 1821, Tortorici shows how the
secular and ecclesiastical courts deployed the term contra
natura-against nature-to try those accused of sodomy, bestiality,
masturbation, erotic religious visions, priestly solicitation of
sex during confession, and other forms of "unnatural" sex. Archival
traces of the visceral reactions of witnesses, the accused,
colonial authorities, notaries, translators, and others in these
records demonstrate the primacy of affect and its importance to the
Spanish documentation and regulation of these sins against nature.
In foregrounding the logic that dictated which crimes were recorded
and how they are mediated through the colonial archive, Tortorici
recasts Iberian Atlantic history through the prism of the unnatural
while showing how archives destabilize the bodies, desires, and
social categories on which the history of sexuality is based.
In 1786, Guatemalan priest Pedro José de Arrese published a work
instructing readers on their duty to perform the cesarean operation
on the bodies of recently deceased pregnant women in order to
extract the fetus while it was still alive. Although the fetus’s
long-term survival was desired, the overarching goal was to cleanse
the unborn child of original sin and ensure its place in heaven.
Baptism Through Incision presents Arrese’s complete
treatise—translated here into English for the first time—with a
critical introduction and excerpts from related primary source
texts. Inspired by priests’ writings published in Spain and
Sicily beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, Arrese and writers
like him in Peru, Mexico, Alta California, Guatemala, and the
Philippines penned local medico-religious manuals and guides for
performing the operation and baptism. Comparing these texts to one
another and placing them in dialogue with archival cases and print
culture references, this book traces the genealogy of the
postmortem cesarean operation throughout the Spanish Empire and
reconstructs the transatlantic circulation of obstetrical and
scientific knowledge around childbirth and reproduction. In doing
so, it shows that knowledge about cesarean operations and fetal
baptism intersected with local beliefs and quickly became part of
the new ideas and scientific-medical advancements circulating
broadly among transatlantic Enlightenment cultures. A valuable
resource for scholars and students of colonial Latin American
history, the history of medicine, and the history of women,
reproduction, and childbirth, Baptism Through Incision includes
translated excerpts of works by Spanish surgeon Jaime Alcalá y
Martínez, Mexican physician Ignacio Segura, and Peruvian friar
Francisco González Laguna, as well as late colonial Guatemalan
instructions, and newspaper articles published in the Gazeta de
México, the Gazeta de Guatemala, and the Mercurio Peruano.
Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America brings
together a broad community of scholars to explore the history of
illicit and alternative sexualities in Latin America's colonial and
early national periods. Together the essays examine how "the
unnatural" came to inscribe certain sexual acts and desires as
criminal and sinful, including acts officially deemed to be
"against nature"- sodomy, bestiality, and masturbation - along with
others that approximated the unnatural - hermaphroditism, incest,
sex with the devil, solicitation in the confessional, erotic
religious visions, and the desecration of holy images. In doing so,
this anthology makes important and necessary contributions to the
historiography of gender and sexuality. Amid the growing
politicized interest in broader LGBTQ movements in Latin America,
the essays also show how these legal codes endured to make their
way into post-independence Latin America.
Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back
into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America. This
collection reveals how interactions between humans and other
animals have significantly shaped narratives of Latin American
histories and cultures. The contributors work through the
methodological implications of centering animals within historical
narratives, seeking to include nonhuman animals as social actors in
the histories of Mexico, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Puerto
Rico, Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Peru, and Argentina. The essays discuss
topics ranging from canine baptisms, weddings, and funerals in
Bourbon Mexico to imported monkeys used in medical experimentation
in Puerto Rico. Some contributors examine the role of animals in
colonization efforts. Others explore the relationship between
animals, medicine, and health. Finally, essays on the postcolonial
period focus on the politics of hunting, the commodification of
animals and animal parts, the protection of animals and the
environment, and political symbolism.Contributors. Neel Ahuja,
Lauren Derby, Regina Horta Duarte, Martha Few, Erica Fudge, Leon
Garcia Garagarza, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Heather L. McCrea, John
Soluri, Zeb Tortorici, Adam Warren, Neil L. Whitehead
Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back
into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America. This
collection reveals how interactions between humans and other
animals have significantly shaped narratives of Latin American
histories and cultures. The contributors work through the
methodological implications of centering animals within historical
narratives, seeking to include nonhuman animals as social actors in
the histories of Mexico, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Puerto
Rico, Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Peru, and Argentina. The essays discuss
topics ranging from canine baptisms, weddings, and funerals in
Bourbon Mexico to imported monkeys used in medical experimentation
in Puerto Rico. Some contributors examine the role of animals in
colonization efforts. Others explore the relationship between
animals, medicine, and health. Finally, essays on the postcolonial
period focus on the politics of hunting, the commodification of
animals and animal parts, the protection of animals and the
environment, and political symbolism.Contributors. Neel Ahuja,
Lauren Derby, Regina Horta Duarte, Martha Few, Erica Fudge, Leon
Garcia Garagarza, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Heather L. McCrea, John
Soluri, Zeb Tortorici, Adam Warren, Neil L. Whitehead
"Queering Archives: Historical Unravelings" is the first of two
themed issues from Radical History Review (numbers 120 and 122)
that explore the ways in which the notion of the "queer archive" is
increasingly crucial for scholars working at the intersection of
history, sexuality, and gender. Efforts to record and preserve
queer experiences determine how scholars account for the past and
provide a framework for understanding contemporary queer life.
Essays in these issues consider historical materials from queer
archives around the world as well as the recent critical practice
of "queering" the archive by looking at historical collections for
queer content (and its absence). This issue explores the evolution
of grassroots LGBT archives, debates over queer migrations,
nationalism and the institutionalization of LGBT memory, the
archiving of transgender activism, digitization and the
classificatory systems of the archive, performances of the colonial
archive, museums as archives, and everyday objects as archivable
texts. Daniel Marshall is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts
and Education at Deakin University, Melbourne. Kevin P. Murphy is
Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota and a
member of the Radical History Review editorial collective. Zeb
Tortorici is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Languages and Literatures at New York University. Contributors:
Rustem Ertug Altinay, Anjali Arondekar, Elspeth H. Brown, Elise
Chenier, Howard Chiang, Ben Cowan, Ann Cvetkovich, Sara Davidmann,
Leah DeVun, Peter Edelberg, Licia Fiol-Matta, Jack Jen Gieseking,
Christina Hanhardt, Robb Hernandez, Kwame Holmes, Regina Kunzel, A.
J. Lewis, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Maria Elena Martinez, Michael
Jay McClure, Caitlin McKinney, Katherine Mohrman, Joan Nestle, Mimi
Thi Nguyen, Tavia Nyong'o, Anthony M. Petro, K. J. Rawson, Barry
Reay, Juana Maria Rodriguez, Don Romesburg, Rebecka Sheffield, Marc
Stein, Margaret Stone, Susan Stryker, Robert Summers, Jeanne
Vaccaro, Dale Washkansky, Melissa White
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