Queer Baroque: Sarduy, Perlongher, Lemebel

<p>This dissertation analyzes the ways in which queer and trans people have been understood through verbal and visual baroque forms of representation in the social and cultural imaginary of Latin America, despite the various structural forces that have attempted to make them invisible and exclude them from the national narrative. My dissertation analyzes the differences between Severo Sarduy’s <em>Neobaroqu</em>e, Néstor Perlongher’s <em>Neobarroso</em>, and Pedro Lemebel’s <em>Neobarrocho</em>, while exploring their individual limitations and potentialities for voicing the joys and pains of being queer and trans in an exclusionary society. As I analyze the literary works of each artist, I also explore non-traditional forms of literature and non-literary objects found in their individual oeuvres. In doing so, I examine various forms of bodily sovereignty, representation practices, embodied forms of resistance, and dynamic forms of queer and trans living and survival. My investigations provide evidence that, in spite of dictatorial and neoliberal systems of power, spaces of creativity and exploration emerge through which artists reject imposed ideologies, embrace resistant aesthetics, and exercise political innovation. By recovering the Baroque, these artists denounce heteronormativity, phallocentrism, and normative sexualities while recognizing the place of sexual and gender minorities in Latin American culture and politics.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures

Grantor

The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York

Year dc:date.available

2020

Author dc:creator

• Jaramillo Gil, Huber David

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Carlos Riobó

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Paul Julian Smith
• Magdalena Perkowska

• Caribbean Languages and Societies
• Latin American Languages and Societies
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
• Visual Studies
• Queer
• Trans
• Sexuality
• Baroque
• Latin America

Repository record dc:identifier

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3862

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-4847