ABATRACTS
Performing Queer Theory in the Americas
Prof. José Muñoz
Department of Performance Studies
New York University
This mini-seminar will commence with a brief introduction to the mode
of analysis that has come to be known in the U.S. as queer theory. To this
end we will begin with a genealogical origin of queer theory that
considers three sites that contribute to its formation: French
Poststructuralist Theory, the writing of Radical Women of Color in the
U.S. and Queer Activism. That survey will be followed by consideraton of
the jingoistic vicissitudes of North American gender studies and queer
critique . We will ask how queer theory can begin to speak to the
complexity of our America. Work by authors who have attempted to bring
these methodologies to Latin America like Sylvia Molloy, Jose Quiroga,
Licia Fiol-Mata, Arnaldo Malave-Cruz and Daniel Balderston will be read
closely. Finally, we will look at the ways in which queer theories can
illustrate and begin to outline the particularities of Latin American
Performance.
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