José Esteban Munoz: Cruising Utopia

USA 2019, 253 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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New York University Press
»Cruising Utopia« arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, José Esteban Munoz argued that the here and now were not enough and issued an urgent call for the ... Weiterlesen

José Esteban Munoz: Disidentifications

Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. USA 1999, 227 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 39.95
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University of Minnesota Press
There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture - not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Munoz calls this process »disidentification«, and through a ... Weiterlesen