| Description |
xvii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
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Occupational/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members |
| Series |
Cultural studies of the Americas ; volume 2
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Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-218) and index. |
| 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 -- 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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Subject |
Minority gay people -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Minority lesbians -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Minority lesbians. |
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United States. |
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Social conditions. |
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Hispanic American gay people -- Social conditions.
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Hispanic American lesbians -- Social conditions.
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Hispanic American lesbians. |
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Gays -- United States -- Identity.
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Gays. |
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Lesbians -- United States -- Identity.
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Lesbians. |
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Performance art -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Performance art -- Political aspects. |
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Performance art. |
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Gays -- Identity. |
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Lesbians -- Identity. |
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Homosexuals. |
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Lesbians. |
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Performance art. |
| Added Title |
Queers of color and the performance of politics |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Muñoz, José Esteban. Disidentifications (OCoLC)1229971976 |
| ISBN |
0816630143 (hardback) |
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9780816630141 (hardback) |
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0816630151 (paperback) |
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9780816630158 (paperback) |
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