{"product_id":"the-avowal-of-difference-ben-sifuentes-jzauregui-9781438454269","title":"The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Avowal of Difference\u003c\/i\u003e explores the potentialities and limitations that queer theory offers in the context of Latino American texts and subjects. Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui contrasts Latino American sexual genealogies with the Anglo-European \"coming out\" narrative-and interrogates the centrality of the \"coming out\" story as the regulating metaphor for gay, lesbian, or queer identities. In its place, the book looks at other strategies-from silence to circumlocution, from disavowal to indifference-to theorize queer subject formation in a Latino American cultural context. The analysis of texts by José Lezama Lima, Luis Zapata, Manuel Puig, Severo Sarduy, Junot Díaz, and others offers a comparative approach to understanding how queer sexualities are shaped and written in other cultural contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438454260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438454269\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458272309503,"sku":"9781438454269","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_75a06aef-8eb0-4c6d-bb12-7801ae912988.jpg?v=1777403404","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-avowal-of-difference-ben-sifuentes-jzauregui-9781438454269","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}