The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives (Suny Series, Genders in the Global South)

The Avowal of Difference explores the potentialities and limitations that queer theory offers in the context of Latino American texts and subjects. Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui contrasts Latino American sexual genealogies with the Anglo-European "coming out" narrative—and interrogates the centrality of the "coming out" story as the regulating metaphor for gay, lesbian, or queer identities. In its place, the book looks at other strategies—from silence to circumlocution, from disavowal to indifference—to theorize queer subject formation in a Latino American cultural context. The analysis of texts by José Lezama Lima, Luis Zapata, Manuel Puig, Severo Sarduy, Junot Díaz, and others offers a comparative approach to understanding how queer sexualities are shaped and written in other cultural contexts. Part I. Unwriting the self: Modernismo, masochism and queer potential in Nervo's El bachiller Queer losses in Barbachano Ponce's El diario de José Toledo Adonis's silence : textual queerness in Zapata's El vampiro de la colonia Roma Part II. Interventions: Epistemerotics: Puig and writing desire La Manuela's return: transvestism, identification, abjection in Lemebel's Loco afán Part III. The body politic: Homosociality, disavowal and pedagogy inbd05 2014-04-14's Los cachorros Sadomasochism in paradiso: bound narratives and pleasure On the homobaroque : queering Sarduy's Baroque genealogies Part IV. Queer latina/o narratives: Queer latinidad: Thomas's Down these mean streets and Díaz's Drown Traveling north, translating queerness: Rivera-Valdés and The trouble with discipline. "The Avowal of Difference explores the potentialities and limitations that queer theory offers in the context of Latino American texts and subjects"--Page [4] of cover