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Queering the Chilean Way

Cultures of Exceptionalism and Sexual Dissidence, 1965–2015

Carl Fischer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

281 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-56385-9 (ISBN)

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This book examines and critiques the fact that Chile’s claims to economic exceptionalism have been embodied, often quite aggressively, in a heterosexual, and primarily male, ideal. Despite the many shifts Chilean economics and politics have undergone over the past fifty years, the country’s view of itself as a “model” in contrast to other Latin American countries has remained constant. By deploying an artistic, literary, and cinematic archive of queer figures from this period, this book draws parallels among the exceptionalisms of Chile’s economic discourse, the subjects deemed most (and least) apt to embody it, and the maneuvers of its cultural production between local and global ideas of gender and politics to delineate its place in the world. Queering the Chilean Way thus sheds light on the sexual, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of exceptionalism—at its heart, a discourse of exclusion that often comprises a major element of nationalism—in Chile and throughout the Americas.

Carl Fischer is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fordham University, USA. His work has been published in American Quarterly, Argus, Cine chileno en dos siglos, and Critical Matrix. He previously worked as a translator for the Chilean government, as well as for numerous international, community, and academic organizations. He received his PhD from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures at Princeton University, USA.

.Acknowledgements.-.List of Figures.-.Introduction.-.Chapter 1: The Monstrous Masculinities of Chile's Agrarian Reform, 1965-70.-.Chapter 2: The Exceptional Art of Gendered Utopias, 1970-3.-.Chapter 3: Queering the State of Exception, 1973-89.-.Chapter 4: Politicizing the Loca Body After the Dictatorship, 1990-2005.-.Chapter 5: Exceptionalism, the Female Body, and the Public Sphere in the Bachelet Era, 2006 15.-.Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.11.2016
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in Latino American Cultures
Zusatzinfo	20 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 281 p. 20 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	America • American Culture • Artist • Chile • Culture • economy • exceptionalism • Film • Film History • Gender • History • Latin America • Latin American culture • Literature • Media Studies • Queer • Sexuality • Social Science • Sociology • Utopia
ISBN-10	1-137-56385-0 / 1137563850
ISBN-13	978-1-137-56385-9 / 9781137563859
Zustand	Neuware