A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire (Sexual Cultures)
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (874 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1479845868 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Hiram Pérez is an Assistant Professor of English at Vassar College
Focusing in particular on three figures with elusive queer histories—the sailor, the soldier, and the cowboy— Pérez 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, Pérez considers not only how US imperialist expansion was realized, but also how it was visualized for and through gay men. 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. . 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 Pérez traces the development of gay modernity and its continued romanticization of the brown body. 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&rsq
Five Stars A.Az Excellent book, well-written, and highly recommend for those interested in queer of color critique.
Ortiz,author of Cultural Erotics in Cuban America“A Taste for Brown Bodies is a crucial and groundbreaking study that throws new light on the interplay of cosmopolitanism and homosexuality. “Perez offers a provocative study that identifies connections between modern gay identity, sexual desire, US imperialism, and national identity.”-Choice“A compelling contribution to the pivotal turn in queer studies toward a critique of still-emergent forms of homo-normativities. With gorgeous prose and unflinching arguments, this book is sure to incite intense debate, ruffle the right feathers, and move us beyond the impasse that equates race politics with knee-jerk identity politics.”-Richard T. Its stunning historical depth and engagement with the promises and limitations of queer theory make it essen