Desplazamientos Culturales: Genealogías Intelectuales en el Neobarroco Cuir Latinoamericano (1950-1990)
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- Author:
- Sierra Audivert, Ibis
- Graduate Program:
- Spanish
- Degree:
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Document Type:
- Dissertation
- Date of Defense:
- April 24, 2023
- Committee Members:
- Krista Brune, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Marco Martinez, Major Field Member
Judith Sierra-Rivera, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mariana Ortega, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Program Head/Chair - Keywords:
- Neobaroque
transatlantic studies
queer
homosexuality
Latin American studies
Ramos Otero
Piñera
Silviano Santiago
Sarduy
Pedro Lemebel
Deleuze
Guattari
Copi
displacement
exiles
sexiles
migration
nomadism
neobarroco
Caribe
Haroldo de Campos
Latinoamérica
homosexualidad
exilios
immigracion
dissidence
cuir - Abstract:
- This dissertation examines a genealogy of queer neo-baroque discourses through the comparative study of literary and visual materials by authors from the Hispanic Caribbean, South America, and Europe. Drawing on the idea of the neo-baroque as a “reading machine” (Valentín Díaz, 2011) that incorporates academic debates and creatively appropriates cultural traditions, I contend that South American and Caribbean authors not only rework but also anticipate notions of French post-structuralism (rhizome, nomadism, flight, becoming) within the Latin American baroque tradition. This transformation explores issues of materiality (excess, precariousness, opacity) and introduces the experience of homosexuals and transvestites in contexts of sociopolitical oppression. I argue that homobaroque authors complicate our perception of minority subjectivity by addressing displacement in three senses: as an intellectual journey, mental wandering, and physical and affective mobility. I demonstrate that they deconstruct ideas of purity and deactivate the binary oppositions that uphold patriarchy and neocolonialism as global and interconnected systems of oppression. This study engages in contemporary discussions about the neo-baroque as a differential aesthetic and contributes to Latin American studies from a transatlantic and interdisciplinary lens that highlights the links between philosophy, literature, visual culture, and gender and sexuality.