Translating the queer : body politics and transnational conversations / / Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba

• Autore: Domínguez Ruvalcaba Héctor <1962->
• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2016; [London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 194 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.76098
• Soggetto topico: Queer theory - Latin America; Gender identity - Latin America; Gay culture - Latin America; Social change - Latin America; Sex - Political aspects - Latin America; Gender studies, gender groups
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : troubles and travels of the queer -- Queer decolonization -- Queerness and the nation in peripheral modernity -- LGBT politics and culture -- Beyond LGBT struggles : trans politics and neoliberal sex -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: "What does it mean to queer a concept? If queerness is a notion that implies a destabilization of the normativity of the body, then all cultural systems contain zones of discomfort relevant to queer studies. What then might we make of such zones when the use of the term queer itself has transcended the fields of sex and gender, becoming a metaphor for addressing such cultural phenomena as hybridization, resignification, and subversion? Further still, what should we make of it when so many people are reluctant to use the term queer, because they view it as theoretical colonialism, or a concept that loses its specificity when applied to a culture that signifies and uses the body differently? Translating the Queer focuses on the dissemination of queer knowledge, concepts, and representations throughout Latin America, a migration that has been accompanied by concomitant processes of translation, adaptation, and epistemological resistance."--Page 4 of cover.
• Titolo autorizzato: Translating the queer
• ISBN: 1-350-22369-7; 1-78360-296-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910149427103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II