Disidentifications: Queers of Color And The Performance of

Disidentifications: Queers of Color And The Performance of Politics (Cultural Studies of the Americas Book 2)

There is more to identity than identifying with oneâ€™s culture or standing solidly against it. JosÃ© Esteban MuÃ±oz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority cultureâ€”not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. MuÃ±oz calls this process â€œdisidentification,â€ and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism.
Disidentifications is also something of a performance in its own right, an attempt to fashion a queer world by working on, with, and against dominant ideology. By examining the process of identification in the work of filmmakers, performance artists, ethnographers, Cuban choteo, forms of gay male mass culture (such as pornography), museums, art photography, camp and drag, and television, MuÃ±oz persistently points to the intersecting and short-circuiting of identities and desires that result from misalignments with the cultural and ideological mainstream in contemporary urban America.
MuÃ±oz calls attention to the world-making properties found in performances by queers of colorâ€”in Carmelita Tropicanaâ€™s â€œCamp/Choteoâ€ style politics, Marga Gomezâ€™s performances of queer childhood, Vaginal Creme Davisâ€™s â€œTerrorist Drag,â€ Isaac Julienâ€™s critical melancholia, Jean-Michel Basquiatâ€™s disidentification with Andy Warhol and pop art, Felix Gonzalez-Torresâ€™s performances of â€œdisidentity,â€ and the political performance of Pedro Zamora, a person with AIDS, within the otherwise artificial environment of the MTV serialThe Real World.

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Country USA
Manufacturer Univ Of Minnesota Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-11-30
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Univ Of Minnesota Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-11-30
Format	Kindle eBook

Disidentifications: Queers of Color And The Performance of Politics (Cultural Studies of the Americas Book 2)

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