false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175289089m/501819.jpg 501819 1 From its sweaty beats to the pulsating music on the streets, Latin/o America is perceived in the United States as the land of heat, the toy store for Western sex. It is the territory of magical fantasy and of revolutionary threat, where topography is the travel guide of desire, directing imperial voyeurs to the exhibition of the flesh. <P>Jose Quiroga flips the stereotype upside down: he shows how Latin/o American lesbians and gay men have consistently eschewed notions of sexual identity for a politics of intervention. In <b>Tropics of Desire</b>, Quiroga reads hesitant Mexican poets as sex-positive voices, he questions how outing and identity politics can fall prey to the manipulations of the state, and explores how invisibility has been used as a tactical tool in opposition to the universal imperative to come out. <P>Drawing on diverse cultural examples such as the performance of bolero and salsa, film, literature, and correspondence, and influenced by masters like Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and a rich tradition of Latin American stylists, Quiroga argues for a politics that denies biological determinism and cannibalizes cultural stereotypes for the sake of political action. 489910 1 11 2000 Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America (Sexual Cultures Series) total:1|5:1| 1 5 6 0 0 0 false false Sat Jun 13 03:32:59 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 03:32:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon May 25 02:08:32 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 18:17:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jan 22 04:28:20 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 04:28:20 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Jan 04 07:48:57 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 04 07:49:06 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jan 02 09:00:05 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 09:00:14 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Thu Aug 23 11:13:48 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 11:13:48 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=501819