Disidentifications : Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics

by Munoz, Jose Esteban; Jose, Munoz

• ISBN13: 9780816630158
• ISBN10: 0816630151
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

Jose' Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial & sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture - not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather, by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes.

Table of Contents

Preface Jack's Plunger	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction Performing Disidentifications	1	(36)
Part I The Melancholia of Race
Famous and Dandy like B. 'n' Andy Race, Pop, and Basquiat	37	(20)
Photographies of Mourning Melancholia and Ambivalence in Van DerZee, Mapplethorpe, and Looking for Langston	57	(20)
Part II Remaking Genres: Porn, Punk, and Ethnography
The Auteothnographic Performance Reading Richard Fung's Queer Hybridity	77	(16)
``The White to Be Angry'' Vaginal Creme Davis's Terrorist Drag	93	(26)
Part III Critical Cubania
Sister Acts Ela Troyano and Carmelita Tropicana	119	(24)
Pedro Zamora's Real World of Counterpublicity Performing an Ethics of the Self	143	(18)
Performing Disidentity Disidentification as a Practice of Freedom	161	(20)
Latina Performance and Queer Worldmaking; or, Chusmeria at the End of the Twentieth Century	181	(20)
Notes	201	(18)
Index	219