Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations

What does it mean to queer a concept? If queerness is a notion that implies a destabilization...
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Author: Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba
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Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations by Ruvalcaba, Héctor Domínguez

Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations

$79.67

Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations

$79.67
Author: Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 11/15/2016
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781783602926

About the Author

Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas, Austin, where he teaches queer and gender issues in Latin American literature, film, and culture.
Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas, Austin, where he teaches queer and gender issues in Latin American literature, film, and culture.




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