Jose Esteban Munoz

The Sense of Brown

Herausgeber: Chambers-Letson, Joshua; Nyong'O, Tavia

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Produktbeschreibung

The Sense of Brown, which he was completing at the time of his death, is Josà Esteban Muà oz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies.

Produktdetails

• Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781478011033
• ISBN-10: 1478011033
• Artikelnr.: 58703901

Autorenporträt

José Esteban Muñoz. Edited and with an introduction by Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong'o

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Editors' Introduction. The Aesthetic Resonance of Brown / Joshua
Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong'o  ix
1. The Browns Commons  1
2. Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's The Sweetest
Hangover (and Other STDs)  8
3. The Onus of Seeing Cuba: Nilo Cruz's Cubanía  24
4. Meandering South: Isaac Julien and The Long Road to Mazatlán  29
5. "Chico, What Does It Feel Like to Be a Problem?": The Transmission of
Brownness  36
6. The Vulnerability Artist: Nao Bustamante and the Sad Beauty of
Reparation  47
7. Queer Theater, Queer Theory: Luis Alfaro's Cuerpo Polizado  59
8. Performing the Bestiary: Carmelita Tropicana's With What Ass Does the
Cockroach Sit?/ Con Que Culo se Sienta la Cucaracha?  78
9. Performing Greater Cuba: Tania Bruguera and the Burden of Guilt  86
10. Wise Latinas  100
11. Brown Worldings: José Rodríguez-Soltero, Tania Bruguera, and María
Irene Fornés  118
12. The Sense of Wildness: The Brown Commons after Paris Burned  128
13. Vitalism's Afterburn: The Sense of Ana Mendieta  141
Notes  151
Bibliography  167
Index  175