Research Catalog

Title

Argentine intimacies : queer kinship in an age of splendor, 1890-1910 / Joseph M. Pierce.

Author

Pierce, Joseph M.

Publication

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2019]

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Details

Description

xiii, 322 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"As Argentina rose to political and economic prominence at the turn of the twentieth century, debates about the family, as an ideological structure and set of lived relationships, took center stage in efforts to shape the modern nation. In Argentine Intimacies, Joseph M. Pierce draws on queer studies, Latin American studies, and literary and cultural studies to consider the significance of one family in particular during this period of intense social change: Carlos, Julia, Delfina, and Alejandro Bunge. One of Argentina's foremost intellectual and elite families, the Bunges have had a profound impact on Argentina's national culture and on Latin American understandings of education, race, gender, and sexual norms. They also left behind a vast archive of fiction, essays, scientific treatises, economic programs, and pedagogical texts, as well as diaries, memoirs, and photography. Argentine Intimacies explores the breadth of their writing to reflect on the intersections of intimacy, desire, and nationalism, and to expand our conception of queer kinship. Approaching kinship as an interface of relational dispositions, Pierce reveals the queerness at the heart of the modern family. Queerness emerges not as an alternative to traditional values so much as a defining feature of the state project of modernization."--

Series Statement

SUNY series, genders in the global south

Uniform Title

Genders in the global south.

Subjects

• Argentina
• Bunge, Carlos O (Carlos Octavio), 1875-1918
• Bunge, Carlos O (Carlos Octavio), 1875-1918 > Political and social views
• 1860-1910
• Intimacy (Psychology)
• History
• Argentina > History > 1860-1910
• Queer theory > Argentina
• Political and social views
• Interpersonal relations > Argentina
• Families > Argentina

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-311) and index.

Contents

Introduction: the Bunge family : queerness, kinship, and modernity -- Carlos Octavio Bunge : queer desire and family fictions -- Sisters writing, sisters reading : the diaries of Julia and Delfina Bunge -- Spectral desires : queering the family album -- Family pedagogy : the institutionalization of kinship -- National essays, home economics : the Argentine oligarchy in decline -- Epilogue. Toward a queer Latin American studies.

Call Number

JFE 20-3902

ISBN

• 9781438476810
• 1438476817
• 9781438476834 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018058249

OCLC

1080248041

Author

Pierce, Joseph M., author.

Title

Argentine intimacies : queer kinship in an age of splendor, 1890-1910 / Joseph M. Pierce.

Publisher

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

SUNY series, genders in the global south

Genders in the global south.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-311) and index.

Chronological Term

1860-1910

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3902