Disidentifications: Queers of Color And The Performance of Politics (Volume 2) (Cultural Studies of the Americas)
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Book Synopsis: There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and 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. Muñoz calls this process “disidentification,” and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism.
Disidentifications is also something of a performance in its own right, an attempt to fashion a queer world by working on, with, and against dominant ideology. By examining the process of identification in the work of filmmakers, performance artists, ethnographers, Cuban choteo, forms of gay male mass culture (such as pornography), museums, art photography, camp and drag, and television, Muñoz persistently points to the intersecting and short-circuiting of identities and desires that result from misalignments with the cultural and ideological mainstream in contemporary urban America.
Muñoz calls attention to the world-making properties found in performances by queers of color—in Carmelita Tropicana’s “Camp/Choteo” style politics, Marga Gomez’s performances of queer childhood, Vaginal Creme Davis’s “Terrorist Drag,” Isaac Julien’s critical melancholia, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s disidentification with Andy Warhol and pop art, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s performances of “disidentity,” and the political performance of Pedro Zamora, a person with AIDS, within the otherwise artificial environment of the MTV serialThe Real World.
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Are you tired of simply aligning yourself with or against mainstream culture? Do you want to transform the works that exclude you and make them serve your own cultural purposes? Look no further than "Disidentifications: Queers Of Color And The Performance Of Politics (Volume 2)". Written by José Esteban Muñoz, this groundbreaking book explores the concept of "disidentification" - a process through which those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture.
By immersing yourself in the study of disidentification, you'll gain a fresh perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism. "Disidentifications" not only analyzes the workings of this transformative process, but it also serves as a performance in its own right. Muñoz attempts to fashion a queer world by challenging and reshaping dominant ideologies.
Through captivating analyses of filmmakers, performance artists, ethnographers, Cuban choteo, gay male mass culture, museums, art photography, camp and drag, and television, Muñoz sheds light on the intersecting and short-circuiting of identities and desires. Discover the world-making properties found in performances by queers of color, such as Carmelita Tropicana’s “Camp/Choteo” style politics, Marga Gomez’s performances of queer childhood, and Vaginal Creme Davis’s daring “Terrorist Drag”.
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