{"product_id":"queer-in-a-legal-sense-brown-citizenship-and-other-lawful-fictions-paperback-softback-9781477333532","title":"Queer in a Legal Sense; Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477333532","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eQueer in a Legal Sense\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBrown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJosé A. de la Garza Valenzuela (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477333532, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 April 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages, 7 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.4 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is a book that many of us have waited decades for. JosÉ de la Garza Valenzuela assembles a gay Chicano literary canon and uses it to illuminate the impact of laws and legal decisions on the fates of immigrants, queer people, and people of color. Accessibly written and brilliantly argued, \u003ci\u003eQueer in a Legal Sense\u003c\/i\u003e makes a case for placing queer Chicano cultural production at the center of the American experience.\" - Michael Roy Hames García, University of Texas at Austin, author of \u003ci\u003eIdentity Complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Theoretically sophisticated, methodologically innovative, and ethically attuned, \u003ci\u003eQueer in a Legal Sense\u003c\/i\u003e is a rigorous, fascinating, timely—indeed urgent—critique of US citizenship and its “lawful fictions” through the lens of gay Chicano literature. Throughout the book, JosÉ de la Garza Valenzuela illustrates that gay Chicano fiction is uniquely positioned to expose the violence of US law and law enforcement against queers, the contradictory heteronormative demands of US citizenship, and the brutal ambiguities of US immigration law. \u003ci\u003eQueer in a Legal Sense\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital intervention in and a much-needed alternative history of contemporary debates about US citizenship.\" - Lisa Marie Cacho, University of Virginia, author of \u003ci\u003eComplex Innocence: Defending Defiant Victims of Police Killings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate the “lawful fiction” that denies queer migrants citizenship and community.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Activists for immigrants and queer people under assault by US authorities focus overwhelmingly on protections presumed to be afforded by citizenship through narratives that have rarely had a place for queer immigrants, who have consistently faced special obstacles to legal entry and citizenship that only recently are being applied more widely. \u003ci\u003eQueer in a Legal Sense\u003c\/i\u003e studies literary works by gay Chicanx writers alongside instruments of law, showing through this juxtaposition how racialized queer people have been imagined as nonviable from the standpoint of citizenship. In stories by John Rechy, Arturo Islas, Rigoberto GonzÁlez, Michael Nava, and Jaime Cortez, JosÉ de la Garza Valenzuela finds what has gone missing in the migrant movement’s pursuit of gendered avenues to civic participation. Further, these works illuminate the production of fictions in canons of law, like those announced by the Florida legislature’s “Purple Pamphlet” and by the US Supreme Court in \u003ci\u003eBoutilier v. INS\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBowers v. Hardwick\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eQueer in a Legal Sense\u003c\/i\u003e argues that, through selective ommissions and inclusions, legal fictions place queerness outside the boundaries of citizenship and powerfully undermine queer representation in pro-migrant advocacy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Illustrations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Author’\u003cbr\u003es Note \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction: Habeas Chicanx Corpus \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. “\u003cbr\u003e(A Separate Issue)”\u003cbr\u003e: Identification in the Absence of Legal Address in John Rechy’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eCity of Night\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. Not Fit to Be Named Among Citizens: Unwarranted Queer Criminality in \u003ci\u003eBowers v. Hardwick\u003c\/i\u003e and Michael Nava’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Friends\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. Queer in a Legal Sense: Narrative Presence in Arturo Islas’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eThe Rain God\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. Dissident Residence: Undocumented Disruptions in Rigoberto GonzÁ\u003cbr\u003elez’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eCrossing Vines\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5. (Un)Documenting Queer Migrant History: Jaime Cortez’\u003cbr\u003es Graphic Authorizations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion. \u003ci\u003eCon Pluma\u003c\/i\u003e: Citizen on Paper \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591022080280,"sku":"9781477333532","price":22.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/queer-in-a-legal-sense-brown-citizenship-and-other-lawful-fictions-paperback-softback-9781477333532","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}