Brown Trans Figurations

Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies

Brown Trans Figurations
Francisco J Galarte
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h229 x 152mm - 192pg
28 Jan 2021 US
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9781477322130
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Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, brown transgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans subjects are treated as deceptive, unnatural, nonexistent, or impossible, their bodies, lives, and material circumstances represented through tropes and used as metaphors. Restoring personhood and agency to these subjects, Francisco J. Galarte advances "brown trans figuration" as a theoretical framework to describe how transness and brownness coexist within the larger queer, trans, and Latinx historical experiences. Brown Trans Figurations presents a collection of representations that reveal the repression of brown trans narratives and make that repression visible and palpable. Galarte examines the violent deaths of two transgender Latinas and the corresponding narratives that emerged about their lives, analyzes the invisibility of brown transmasculinity in Chicana feminist works, and explores how issues such as transgender politics can be imagined as part of Chicanx and Latinx political movements. This book considers the contexts in which brown trans narratives appear, how they circulate, and how they are reproduced in politics, sexual cultures, and racialized economies.
"[Brown Trans Figurations' ] most accessible sections provide thorough and rewarding analyses of popular culture. . . scholars in the fields of Latinx and gender studies will appreciate this detailed look at an underexplored subject. " * Publishers Weekly *
Francisco J. Galarte is an assistant professor of gender and women' s studies at the University of Arizona. He is a coeditor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly and the author of the essay "Transitions: The Dolorous Return of a Chicana/o Trans-Fronterizo," in Claiming Home, Shaping Community: Testimonios de los valles. His work has also appeared in Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies and Chicana/Latina Studies
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ISBN-13: 9781477322130
Published: 28 Jan 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Weight: 467g
Pages: 192

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