Disidentifications is also something of a performance in its own right, an attempt to fashion a queer world by working on, with, and against dominant ideology. By examining the process of identification in the work of filmmakers, performance artists, ethnographers, Cuban choteo, forms of gay male mass culture (such as pornography), museums, art photography, camp and drag, and television, Munoz persistently points to the intersecting and short-circuiting of identities and desires that result from misalignments with the cultural and ideological mainstream in contemporary urban America.' - from publisher's website
With biography of author.
Cultural Studies of the Americas
Onsite
English
performance studies, cultural studies, performance art, gender, race, queer
1999
229
9780816630141
1
monograph
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
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