Queering the Chilean Way [electronic resource] : Cultures of Exceptionalism and Sexual Dissidence, 1965–2015 /
Fischer, Carl.author.
This book examines and critiques the fact that Chile’s claims to economic exceptionalism have been embodied, often quite aggressively, in a heterosexual, and primarily male, ideal. Despite the many shifts Chilean economics and politics have undergone over the past fifty years, the country’s view of itself as a “model” in contrast to other Latin American countries has remained constant. By deploying an artistic, literary, and cinematic archive of queer figures from this period, this book draws parallels among the exceptionalisms of Chile’s economic discourse, the subjects deemed most (and least) apt to embody it, and the maneuvers of its cultural production between local and global ideas of gender and politics to delineate its place in the world. Queering the “Chilean Way” thus sheds light on the sexual, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of exceptionalism—at its heart, a discourse of exclusion that often comprises a major element of nationalism—in Chile and throughout the Americas.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book examines and critiques the fact that Chile’s claims to economic exceptionalism have been embodied, often quite aggressively, in a heterosexual, and primarily male, ideal. Despite the many shifts Chilean economics and politics have undergone over the past fifty years, the country’s view of itself as a “model” in contrast to other Latin American countries has remained constant. By deploying an artistic, literary, and cinematic archive of queer figures from this period, this book draws parallels among the exceptionalisms of Chile’s economic discourse, the subjects deemed most (and least) apt to embody it, and the maneuvers of its cultural production between local and global ideas of gender and politics to delineate its place in the world. Queering the “Chilean Way” thus sheds light on the sexual, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of exceptionalism—at its heart, a discourse of exclusion that often comprises a major element of nationalism—in Chile and throughout the Americas.
Introduction -- The monstrous masculinities of Chile's agrarian reform, 1965-1970 -- The exceptional art of gendered utopias, 1970-1973 -- Queering the state of exception, 1973-1990 -- Politicizing the Loca body after the dictatorship, 1990-2005 -- Exceptionalism, the female body, and the public sphere in the Bachelet Era, 2006-2015.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Sociology.
Latin America—Politics and government.
Latin American Culture.
Gender Studies.
Latin American Politics.