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Record Nr.

UNINA9910150190603321

Autore

Fischer Carl

Titolo

Queering the Chilean Way : Cultures of Exceptionalism and Sexual Dissidence, 1965–2015 / / by Carl Fischer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-56248-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 281 p. 20 illus.)

Collana

New Directions in Latino American Cultures

Disciplina

306.098

Soggetti

Ethnology—Latin America

Sociology

Latin America—Politics and government

Latin American Culture

Gender Studies

Latin American Politics

Chile Politics and government 20th century

Chile Politics and government 21st century

Chile Economic conditions 20th century

Chile Economic conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The monstrous masculinities of Chile's agrarian reform, 1965-1970 -- The exceptional art of gendered utopias, 1970-1973 -- Queering the state of exception, 1973-1990 -- Politicizing the Loca body after the dictatorship, 1990-2005 -- Exceptionalism, the female body, and the public sphere in the Bachelet Era, 2006-2015.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines and critiques the fact that Chile’s claims to economic exceptionalism have been embodied, often quite aggressively, in a heterosexual, and primarily male, ideal. Despite the many shifts Chilean economics and politics have undergone over the past fifty years, the country’s view of itself as a “model” in contrast to other Latin American countries has remained constant. By deploying an artistic, literary, and cinematic archive of queer figures from this period, this book draws parallels among the exceptionalisms of Chile’s



economic discourse, the subjects deemed most (and least) apt to embody it, and the maneuvers of its cultural production between local and global ideas of gender and politics to delineate its place in the world. Queering the “Chilean Way” thus sheds light on the sexual, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of exceptionalism—at its heart, a discourse of exclusion that often comprises a major element of nationalism—in Chile and throughout the Americas.