Munoz Jose Esteban Munoz

Sense of Brown (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Sense of Brown is Jose Esteban Munoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, which he was completing at the time of his death, Munoz examines the work of playwrights Ricardo Bracho and Nilo Cruz, artists Nao Bustamante, Isaac Julien, and Tania Bruguera, and singer Jose Feliciano, among others, arguing for a sense of brownness that is not fixed within the racial and national contours of Latinidad. This sense of brown is not about the individualized brown subject; rather, it demonstrates that for brown peoples, being exists within what Munoz calls the brown commons-a lifeworld, queer ecology, and form of collectivity. In analyzing minoritarian affect, ethnicity as a structure of feeling, and brown feelings as they emerge in, through, and beside art and performance, Munoz illustrates how the sense of brown serves as the basis for other ways of knowing and being in the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478012566
• Artikelnr.: 66282481

Autorenporträt

José Esteban Muñoz (1967–2013) was Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and author of Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity and Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Joshua Chambers-Letson is Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Tavia Nyong’o is Professor of American Studies, African American Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies at Yale University.

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