Tropics of Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tropics of Desire write by Jose Quiroga. This book was released on 2000-11. Tropics of Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From its sweaty beats to the pulsating music on the streets, Latin/o America is perceived in the United States as the land of heat, the toy store for Western sex. It is the territory of magical fantasy and of revolutionary threat, where topography is the travel guide of desire, directing imperial voyeurs to the exhibition of the flesh. Jose Quiroga flips the stereotype upside down: he shows how Latin/o American lesbians and gay men have consistently eschewed notions of sexual identity for a politics of intervention. In Tropics of Desire, Quiroga reads hesitant Mexican poets as sex-positive voices, he questions how outing and identity politics can fall prey to the manipulations of the state, and explores how invisibility has been used as a tactical tool in opposition to the universal imperative to come out. Drawing on diverse cultural examples such as the performance of bolero and salsa, film, literature, and correspondence, and influenced by masters like Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and a rich tradition of Latin American stylists, Quiroga argues for a politics that denies biological determinism and cannibalizes cultural stereotypes for the sake of political action.
Tropic of Desire
Tropic of Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tropic of Desire write by Antoinette Beaudry. This book was released on 2000-08. Tropic of Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sweet, innocent Mercy had always believed the stars foretold the future. Even the name of the ship on which she was sailing to America appeared to be a fortuitous omen, for the Capricorn was swiftly carrying her to her bridegroom's waiting arms.But her faith was shattered when she was subjected to violent, unspeakable indignities by the clipper's crew - vicious men who amused themselves by abusing the beautiful, virtuous young women - until a dashing, noble seaman saved her from further shame.Adrift together on a stormy sea, Mercy and Clifford are swept ashore onto a strange and exotic island ... where they must survive amidst angry passions fanned by the winds of war.As Cuba rages with rebellion, they risk their lives for freedom ... and a love that even fate dare not deny!
Tropics of Desire
Tropics of Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tropics of Desire write by Jose A. Quiroga. This book was released on 2000-11-01. Tropics of Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From its sweaty beats to the pulsating music on the streets, Latin/o America is perceived in the United States as the land of heat, the toy store for Western sex. It is the territory of magical fantasy and of revolutionary threat, where topography is the travel guide of desire, directing imperial voyeurs to the exhibition of the flesh. Jose Quiroga flips the stereotype upside down: he shows how Latin/o American lesbians and gay men have consistently eschewed notions of sexual identity for a politics of intervention. In Tropics of Desire, Quiroga reads hesitant Mexican poets as sex-positive voices, he questions how outing and identity politics can fall prey to the manipulations of the state, and explores how invisibility has been used as a tactical tool in opposition to the universal imperative to come out. Drawing on diverse cultural examples such as the performance of bolero and salsa, film, literature, and correspondence, and influenced by masters like Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and a rich tradition of Latin American stylists, Quiroga argues for a politics that denies biological determinism and cannibalizes cultural stereotypes for the sake of political action.
Queer Latinidad
Queer Latinidad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queer Latinidad write by Juana María Rodríguez. This book was released on 2003. Queer Latinidad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author documents the ways in which identity formation and representation within the gay Latinidad population impacts gender and cultural studies today.
Law of Desire
Law of Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law of Desire write by José Quiroga. This book was released on 2009-10-01. Law of Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “This series will be a significant, valuable contribution to the history and literature of gay cinema. Each of these works will be valuable additions for academic and popular students of film and gay culture.”—Library Journal Law of Desire, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal Pulp Press' new film book series Queer Film Classics, focuses on the 1987 homoerotic melodrama by Pedro Almodóvar, Spain's most successful contemporary film director. The film Law of Desire is a grand tale of love, lust, and amnesia featuring three main characters: a gay film director (played by Eusebio Poncela); his sister, an actress who was once his brother (Carmen Maura); and a repressed, obsessive stalker (a young Antonio Banderas). In the twenty-plus years since its first release, Law of Desire has been acknowledged as redefining the way in which cinema can portray the difficult affective relationships between homosexuality, gender, and sex. Taking his cue from the golden age of Latin American, American, and European melodrama, Almodóvar created a sentimental yet hard-edged film that believes in the utopian possibilities for new relationships that redeem people from their despair. Since its release, Almodóvar has become an Oscar-winning filmmaker who regularly delves into issues of sexuality, gender, and identity. This book examines the political and social context in which Almodóvar created Law of Desire, as well as its impact on LGBT cinema both in Europe and around the world.
