Streetwalking : LGBTQ lives and protest in the Dominican Republic /

Streetwalking : LGBTQ lives and protest in the Dominican Republic /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lara, Ana-Mauríne, author.
Imprint:	New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Description:	vii, 213 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Critical Caribbean studies Critical Caribbean studies.
Subject:	Sexual minorities -- Dominican Republic -- Social conditions. Gay rights -- Dominican Republic. Gay rights. Social conditions. Dominican Republic -- Social conditions. Dominican Republic.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12409496

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ISBN:	9781978816497 1978816499 9781978816503 1978816502 9781978816510 9781978816534 9781978816527
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in their struggle for subjectivity, recognition, and rights. Drawing on ethnographic encounters, film and video, and interviews, LGBTQ community leaders teach readers about streetwalking, confrontación, flipping the script, cuentos, and the use of strategic universalisms in the exercise of power and agency. Rooted in Maria Lugones's theorization of streetwalker strategies and Audre Lorde's theorization of silence and action, this text re-imagines the exercise and locus of power in examples provided by the living, thriving LGBTQ community of the Dominican Republic"--

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Where the Locas Are
Part I. Street Smarts
1. Christian Coloniality
2. Sexual Terror
Part II. Streetwalking
3. Confrontación
4. Flipping the Script
5. Cuentos
Conclusion: On Silence Transformed
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index