{"product_id":"the-avowal-of-difference-queer-latino-american-narratives-9781438454269","title":"The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Cultural \u0026amp; Ethnic Studies - American - Hispanic \u0026amp; Latino Stu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Avowal of Difference\u003c\/i\u003e explores the potentialities and limitations that queer theory offers in the context of Latino American texts and subjects. Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui contrasts Latino American sexual genealogies with the Anglo-European \"coming out\" narrative-and interrogates the centrality of the \"coming out\" story as the regulating metaphor for gay, lesbian, or queer identities. In its place, the book looks at other strategies-from silence to circumlocution, from disavowal to indifference-to theorize queer subject formation in a Latino American cultural context. The analysis of texts by José Lezama Lima, Luis Zapata, Manuel Puig, Severo Sarduy, Junot Díaz, and others offers a comparative approach to understanding how queer sexualities are shaped and written in other cultural contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46506930372759,"sku":"9781438454269","price":1881.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781438454269.webp?v=1769197704","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-avowal-of-difference-queer-latino-american-narratives-9781438454269","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}