Disidentifications : queers of color and the performance of politics / José Esteban Muñoz.

  • Muñoz, José Esteban
Date:
[1999]
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Also known as

Queers of color and the performance of politics

Description

"There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture--not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Muñoz calls this process "disidentification," and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism."--Publisher's description.

Publication/Creation

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [1999]

Physical description

xvii, 227 pages : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm.

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Contents

Preface: Jack's plunger -- Introduction: performing disidentifications -- Part I: the melancholia of race -- Famous and dandy like B. 'n' Andy: race, pop, and Basquiat -- Photographies of mourning: melancholia and ambivalence in Van DerZee, Mapplethorpe, and Looking for Langston -- Part II: remaking genres: porn, punk, and ethnography -- The autoethnographic performance: reading Richard Fung's queer hybridity -- "The white to be angry": Vaginal Creme Davis's terrorist drag -- Part III: critical Cubanía -- Sister acts: Ela Troyano and Carmelita Tropicana -- Pedro Zamora's Real world of counterpublicity: performing an ethics of the self -- Performing disidentity: disidentification as a practice of freedom -- Latina performance and queer worldmaking, or, Chusmería at the end of the twentieth century.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-218) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    TW.6.U
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  • 0816630151
  • 9780816630158