{"product_id":"the-avowal-of-difference","title":"The Avowal of Difference","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Avowal of Difference\u003c\/i\u003e explores the potentialities and limitations that queer theory offers in the context of Latino American texts and subjects. Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui contrasts Latino American sexual genealogies with the Anglo-European \"coming out\" narrative-and interrogates the centrality of the \"coming out\" story as the regulating metaphor for gay, lesbian, or queer identities. In its place, the book looks at other strategies-from silence to circumlocution, from disavowal to indifference-to theorize queer subject formation in a Latino American cultural context. The analysis of texts by José Lezama Lima, Luis Zapata, Manuel Puig, Severo Sarduy, Junot Díaz, and others offers a comparative approach to understanding how queer sexualities are shaped and written in other cultural contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57484391514485,"sku":"9781438454269","price":25.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781438454269.jpg?v=1786266473","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/the-avowal-of-difference","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}