The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives

By Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui and Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui

Discusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.

The Avowal of Difference explores the potentialities and limitations that queer theory offers in the context of Latino American texts and subjects. Ben. Sifuentes-J uregui 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 Jos Lezama Lima, Luis Zapata, Manuel Puig, Severo Sarduy, Junot D az, and others offers a comparative approach to understanding how queer sexualities are shaped and written in other cultural contexts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438454260
• ISBN13: 9781438454269
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher