Ana-Maurine Lara

Streetwalking

LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic

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Produktbeschreibung

In Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic, Lara draws on ethnographic encounters, interviews, films, and videos to discuss the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in the exercise of streetwalker subjectivities as those who actively transform silence - verbal, bodily, spiritual - into power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781978816497
• ISBN-10: 1978816499
• Artikelnr.: 59077864

Autorenporträt

ANA-MAURINE LARA is a scholar, novelist, and poet. She is an assistant professor in the department of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Oregon, and is the author of the creative works Kohnjehr Woman, Erzulie's Skirt, and Sum of Parts.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Where the Locas Are
Section I: Street Smarts
Chapter 1: Christian Coloniality
Chapter 2: Sexual Terror
Section II: Streetwalking
Chapter 3: Confrontación
Chapter 4: Flipping the Script
Chapter 5: Cuentos
Conclusion: On Silence Transformed
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index