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From Ashes to Text
Andean Literature of Sexual Dissidence in the 20th Century
Diego Falconí Trávez (Author), Carrie Hamilton (Translated by), Joseph Pierce (Foreword by)
9781509550159, Polity Press
Hardback, published 16 September 2022
280 pages
22.1 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.454 kg
"Working through the remnants of colonial sodomitic tropes, Falconí Trávez offers a new localized queer theory and practice that reimagines what a sexually dissident decolonial culture can be, and brilliantly queers in the process both Euro-American queer theory and the Andean literary canon."
Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Fordham University
According to some chronicles of the Spanish Conquest, the violent arrival of the Conquerors to the Andes in the sixteenth century led to sex-dissident people who lived outside the dominant European cisheteropatriarchal model being burned at the stake. This act burned more than the flesh; it also charred practices, ways of life, and textualities, leaving an emptiness and a trauma that would mark the future literatures of the Andean region. This book cannot repair those pre-sodomite texts and bodies. It seeks instead to reconsider the value of the ash, a metaphor that allows for a critical and contradictory reading of sexual dissidences in the Andean region in the twentieth century, beyond both multiculturalism and the wake of a globalized LGBTI movement. Through a comparative analysis, and drawing on theoretical perspectives such as anticoloniality, feminisms, and cuir (rather than queer) theories, the book aims to understand the value of a series of complex texts in which dissident subjectivities, practices, and desires help to broaden the understanding of the Andean. Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas prize, the book was praised by the jury for the paradoxical and provocative way that it struggles against the abyss of past destruction and reflects on the contribution of the Global South to the often uniformist thinking around the body and its intersections.
Acknowledgements
Foreword – Joseph Pierce
Instructions for Reading this Book: By Way of an Introduction
1. Re-sent(I)Ment of the Andean Literary Canon: Proposal for a Heterofagcontradictory Reading through Pablo Palacio
2. Mestizaje’s Back Door: Crossings in the Narrative of Jaime Bayly, from Homo to Gay to Bi
3. Julieta Paredes: Rearranging the Lesbian Aymara Body through Devilish Writing
4. Writing at the Andean Limits: Decadence, Migration and Aids-Reciprocity in the Writing of Fernando Vallejo’s I
5. From Queer to Cuy(R)? The Bewitching Proposal to Entundar in the Literature of Adalberto Ortiz
Subject Areas: Language: reference & general [CB]
