Research Catalog

Title

Disidentifications : queers of color and the performance of politics / José Esteban Muñoz.

Author

Muñoz, José Esteban.

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Description

xvii, 227 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 2.

Subject

• Minority gays > United States > Social conditions
• Minority lesbians > United States > Social conditions
• Hispanic American gays > Social conditions
• Hispanic American lesbians > Social conditions
• Gays > United States > Identity
• Lesbians > United States > Identity
• Performance art > Political aspects > United States
• Performances
• Homoseksualiteit
• Minderheden
• Beeldvorming

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Famous and dandy like B. 'n' Andy: race, pop, and Basquiat -- Photographies of mourning: melancholia and ambivalence in Van DerZee, Mapplethorpe, and Looking for Langston -- The autoethnographic performance: reading Richard Fung's queer hybridity -- "The white to be angry": Vaginal Creme Davis's terrorist drag -- Sister acts: Ela Troyano and Carmelita Tropicana -- Pedro Zamora's Real world of counterpublicity: performing an ethics of the self -- Performing disidentity: disidentification as a practice of freedom -- Latina performance and queer worldmaking, or, Chusmería at the end of the twentieth century.

ISBN

• 0816630143 (HC : acid-free paper)
• 9780816630141 (HC : acid-free paper)
• 0816630151 (PB)
• 9780816630158 (PB)

LCCN

• 98054363
• 99958522990

OCLC

• ocm40489302
• 40489302
• SCSB-3702553

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries