Description: Discusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.
Brief description: Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui is Associate Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature: Genders Share Flesh.
Review Quotes:
"...although the book is academically rigorous the writing is clear and the whole is vivid and thought provoking." - James Morgan Brown Review
"The Avowal of Difference is a delightful critical encounter between queer criticism and Latino American literature and culture. I wish I had written it myself." - Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, author of Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico