Queering Apocalypse: Queer Latinx Approaches to History and Hope in the Unending End Times of Western Modernity
Journal: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University)
Year: 2024

This dissertation is about apocalypse and modernity in the lands that European colonial powers renamed “América,” or “the Americas.” Departing from the intersection of queer theories, de- and anticolonial thinking, ethnic studies, transnational feminism, and theology, this dissertation examines the deep relationship and history between apocalypse, utopia, and the colonial foundations of Western modernity, as well as how this colonial history and its apocalyptic legacy continues to shape our live