A taste for brown bodies : gay modernity and cosmopolitan desire / Hiram Pérez.

By:

Pérez, Hiram [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Sexual culturesPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 179 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781479846757
1479846759

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Taste for brown bodiesDDC classification:

306.76/62 23

LOC classification:

HQ76.25 .P47236 2015eb

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Contents:

The queer afterlife of Billy Budd -- Going to meet the man in Abu Ghraib -- The global taste for queer -- You can have my brown body and eat it, too! -- Gay cowboys close to home.

Summary: Neither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In 'A Taste for Brown Bodies', Hiram Perez traces the development of gay modernity and its continued romanticization of the brown body. Focusing in particular on three figures with elusive queer histories - the sailor, the soldier, and the cowboy - Perez unpacks how each has been memorialized and desired for their heroic masculinity while at the same time functioning as agents for the expansion of the US borders and neocolonial zones of influence.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The queer afterlife of Billy Budd -- Going to meet the man in Abu Ghraib -- The global taste for queer -- You can have my brown body and eat it, too! -- Gay cowboys close to home.

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Neither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In 'A Taste for Brown Bodies', Hiram Perez traces the development of gay modernity and its continued romanticization of the brown body. Focusing in particular on three figures with elusive queer histories - the sailor, the soldier, and the cowboy - Perez unpacks how each has been memorialized and desired for their heroic masculinity while at the same time functioning as agents for the expansion of the US borders and neocolonial zones of influence.

English.

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