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Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics

Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics

Munoz, Jose Esteban
Cabral, Adi
Cabral, Adi

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGLBTQIA StudiesPerformance Art

ISBN13: 9798228324220
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: Nov 12 2024
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.21 Depth: 6.70
Language: English
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.

Disidentifications is also something of a performance in its own right, an attempt to fashion a queer world by working on, with, and against dominant ideology. By examining the process of identification in the work of filmmakers, performance artists, ethnographers, Cuban choteo, forms of gay male mass culture (such as pornography), museums, art photography, camp and drag, and television, Muñoz persistently points to the intersecting and short-circuiting of identities and desires that result from misalignments with the cultural and ideological mainstream in contemporary urban America. Muñoz calls attention to the world-making properties found in performances by queers of color--in Carmelita Tropicana's Camp/Choteo style politics, Marga Gomez's performances of queer childhood, Vaginal Creme Davis's Terrorist Drag, Isaac Julien's critical melancholia, and more.

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