{"product_id":"bottoms-up-queer-mexicanness-and-latinx-performance-hardcover","title":"Bottoms Up: Queer Mexicanness and Latinx Performance - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eXiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gomez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProposes a queer way to be in the world and with others\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInvoking queer aesthetics, ethics, and politics, \u003ci\u003eBottoms Up\u003c\/i\u003e explores a sexual way to be with others while living with loss. Xiomara Cervantes-G?mez demonstrates how aesthetic representations of sex--namely, bottoming--function as allegorical paradigms, revealing the assemblages of violence that have constituted the social, cultural, and political shifts of Mexico and US Latinx culture from 1950 to the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith playful, theoretically nuanced prose, Cervantes-G?mez builds upon queer of color theory and continental philosophy to present the \"bottom\" as a form of relational performance, which she terms \"pasivo ethics.\" The argument develops through a series of compelling case studies, including a series of novels by Octavio Paz and Luis Zapata that trace the position of the bottom in Mexican nationalist literature; the forms of exposure, risk, and proximity in the performance work of artist Lechedevirgen Trimegisto; a reading of violence and the erotic in the work of artist Bruno Ramri; and reading artists such as Yosimar Reyes, Yanina Orellana, and Carlos Martiel as they build a framework of sexual inheritance that carries the traumas of Mexicanness into the diaspora. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough a broad archive rooted in hemispheric Latinx performance, \u003ci\u003eBottoms Up\u003c\/i\u003e considers how sexual and political power are bound up with each other in the shaping of Mexicanness. Placing particular emphasis on questions of queer and trans Mexican embodiment, the book explains how Mexicanness is constituted through discourses of exposure.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703913476403,"sku":"9781479829118","price":167.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/aMpAP1TqG89781479829118.webp?v=1763344644","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/bottoms-up-queer-mexicanness-and-latinx-performance-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}