Taste for Brown Bodies

Hiram Perez

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Winner, LGBT Studies Lammy Award presented by Lambda LiteraryNeither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In A Taste for Brown Bodies, Hiram Prez traces the development of gay modernity and its continued romanticization of the brown body. Focusing in particular on three figures with elusive queer histories-the sailor, the soldier, and the cowboy- Prez unpacks how each has been memorialized and desired for their heroic masculinity while at the same time functioning as agents for the expansion of the US borders and neocolonial zones of influence. Describing an enduring homonationalism dating to the "birth" of the homosexual in the late 19th century, Prez considers not only how US imperialist expansion was realized, but also how it was visualized for and through gay men. By means of an analysis of literature, film, and photographs from the 19th to the 21st centuries-including Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Anne Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain," and photos of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison-Prez proposes that modern gay male identity, often traced to late Victorian constructions of "invert" and "homosexual," occupies not the periphery of the nation but rather a cosmopolitan position, instrumental to projects of war, colonialism, and neoliberalism. A Taste for Brown Bodies argues that practices and subjectivities that we understand historically as forms of homosexuality have been regulated and normalized as an extension of the US nation-state, laying bare the tacit, if complex, participation of gay modernity within US imperialism.

Sujets

• LGBTQ+ Studies
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: NYU Press
• Date de parution: 30 octobre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781479846757
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

A Taste for Brown B odies

Sexual Cultures General Editors: Ā éé, àà ô’ô, à Jôŝûà Çàéŝ-éŝô Founding Editors: JôŝÈ Éŝéà ûñôz à Ā éé

éŝ  é ŝééŝ çûé:

Tîmes Sqûare Re, Tîmes Sqûare bûe Śàûé . Déà

Qûeer Goaîzatîons: Cîtîzenshîp an the Afterîfe of Coonîaîsm Éé  Āàô Çûz ààÈ à à . àààŝà 

Qûeer Latînîa: ïentît Practîces, Dîscûrsîve Spaces Jûàà àíà ôíûéz

Love the Sîn: Sexûa Regûatîon an the Lîmîts of Reîgîoûs Toerance Jàé . Jàôŝé à Ā éé

borîcûa Pop: Pûerto Rîcans an the Latînîzatîon of Amerîcan Cûtûre àçéŝ Èô-ûàé

Mannîng the Race: Reformîng back Men în the Jîm Crow Era àô ôŝŝ

ïn a Qûeer Tîme an Pace: Transgener boîes, Sûcûtûra Lîves Jû àéŝà

Wh ï Hate Aercromîe an Fîtch: Essas on Race an Sexûaît în the U.S. D Ā. çé

Go Hates Fags: The Rhetorîcs of Reîgîoûs Vîoence çàé Çô

Once Yoû Go back: Choîce, Desîre, an the back Amerîcan ïnteectûa ôé é-à

The Latîno bo: Crîsîs ïentîtîes în Amerîcan Lîterar an Cûtûra Memor ázàô à

Arrangîng Grîef: Sacre Tîme an the bo în Nîneteenth-Centûr Amerîca Dàà ûçàô

Crûîsîng Utopîa: The Then an There of Qûeer Fûtûrît JôŝÈ Éŝéà ûñôz

Another Coûntr: Qûeer Antî-Uranîsm Śçô é

Extravagant Ajectîon: backness, Power, an Sexûaît în the Afrîcan Amerîcan Lîterar ïmagînatîon Dàéç Śçô

Reocatîons: Qûeer Sûûran ïmagînarîes àé ôŝô

beon the Natîon: Dîasporîc Fîîpîno Lîteratûre an Qûeer Reaîng à Jôŝé ôçé

Sînge: Argûments for the Uncoûpe çàé Çô

brown bos an Rîce Qûeens: Speînîng Performance în the Asîas É-é 

Transformîng Cîtîzenshîps: Transgener Artîcûatîons of the Law ŝààç éŝ

The Deectae Negro: Hûman Consûmptîon an Homoerotîcîsm wîthîn US Save Cûtûre çé ôôà, Éé  Jûŝ Ā. Jôçé à D Ā. çé

Sexûa Fûtûres, Qûeer Gestûres an Other Latîna Longîngs Jûàà àíà ôíûéz

Sensatîona Fesh: Race, Power, an Masochîsm Āé Jàà ûŝŝé

The Exqûîsîte Corpse of Asîan Amerîca: bîopoîtîcs, bîosocîaît, an Posthûman Ecoogîes àçé Ç. éé

Not Ga: Sex etween Straîght Whîte Men Jàé à

Emoîe Avatars: Geneaogîes of back Femînîst Art an Performance U çà

A Taste for brown boîes: Ga Moernît an Cosmopoîtan Desîre à Èéz

ô à çôéé ŝ ô ôôŝ  é ŝééŝ, ŝéé .ûéŝŝ.ô

Ā àŝé ô ô ôéŝ

Ga Moernît an Cosmopoîtan Desîre

à Èéz

N E W Y O R K  N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S New York an Lonon

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ŝ ôô ôû ô àé ŝéé é  ô à ôû é (ô ààŝ ŝô éé) ô ô Śàà Śéé, éà ŝŝé é à àé  çé ŝçé é Çôûà àŝ. é ŝàé ŝ ûé ô JôŝÈ ûôz’ŝ éŝŝé ŝôçàô—ô ŝ çôé é à çôééçéŝ ô ûé àôû é àûŝç à ŝŝ à  ŝé  ô . é ŝô à ôéŝ,  ôé JôŝÈ ôô ûç ô àççôû ô éé.  JôŝÈ, é ôŝ ô ô à éçé à ééôûŝ ééçûà û àŝô à éà çàô ô ûéé ô çôô ŝçôàŝ, éé ûŝ éŝŝà ôéŝ.  à ûé àéû àŝô ô é à  û Jôŝé é, ô éà à ôéé ééàç ô éé à ô ŝ ôô à éçôûàé é ôû é ôû àçéŝ.  àô ô Jôé à Śàà, à çôô ô Çôûà àôŝ àŝ ŝôô  é ôû é éàŝ, ŝçàé û ŝéààŝ. é çûé Çŝ Ç, ŝà Éŝéç, Ā à, à ûà ààô. Çŝ àŝ ôé ŝéé àŝ à àûàé éôçûô ô ŝ ôjéç. ô ŝéé é ôû Çôûà é ŝ ôôé éà, à àŝ ô Jô Āçé, àçéûŝ ôû, éÈ Çéŝà, Dà É, àà Jàŝé , Jéà ôà, éà ôàŝ, à àçà àŝ. éé ôé ô ô ŝ é éàŝ à,  ôé à éà é ô à é é àé éŝ ô àé ŝûç  é (à ŝûç û ô é) ôé é çôûŝé ô  ûûûôûŝ àçàéç çàéé. û,  ôû é ôŝ - ôû ôû, ààé é àŝŝ, Jàé Çûé, Çŝŝ Dàûà, Éé ûà, Jàç àéŝà,  à, à àé, Dà ô, à- çà àé, Éàé ô,  Ś. Āà, Jé Śô, éé Śàô, ààà Zûçàŝ. ôû àé à é éà ô é.  à  àçûà àŝ ôé ûé à  ô éà  ŝéà  çàéé, ôé éé ô ôûàéûé  ŝûôéŝŝ. Ā ŝôû ôû ôéŝ ô  à çé,

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