Tropics of Desire
Subtitle: Interventions from Queer Latino America (Sexual Cultures Series)
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: November 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780814769522
Subjects: Cultural studies; Lesbian Studies; Sociology; Latin America; Homosexuality; Lesbians; Social Science; Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction; Sexuality; GAYS_POLITICAL ACTIVITY; GAYS_SOCIAL CONDITIONS; HISPANIC AMERICANS_SOCIAL CONDITIONS; OUTING (SEXUAL ORIENTATION); Social Science / Gay Studies; Gays; Gay Studies; Homosexuality and literature; Identity
Description: "In Tropics of Desire, Quiroga reads hesitant Mexican poets as sex-positive voices, he questions how outing and identity politics can fall prey to the manipulations of the state, and explores how invisibility has been used as a tactical tool in opposition to the universal imperative to come out.".

"Drawing on diverse cultural examples such as the performance of bolero and salsa, film, literature, and correspondence, and influenced by masters like Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and a rich tradition of Latin American stylists, Quiroga argues for a politics that denies biological determinism and cannibalizes cultural stereotypes for the sake of political action."--BOOK JACKET.