Full Description
Plebeian Prose is a key work by the pioneering Argentine Brazilian anthropologist, sociologist and poet Néstor Perlongher. Perlongher, whose work has been highly influential in the development of Latin American cultural theory and literature, represents an original critical 'queer' voice in Latin American thought.
This book is an exploration of the politics of desire, questions of identity, Latin American neo-baroque aesthetics, sexual dissidence, violence and jouissance. Prompted by his reading of Gilles Deleuze, the link between politics and desire remains central to all Perlongher's reflections and gives his writings a lasting topicality. A thinker of the streets with a keen interest in those on the margins of society, the ideas that are developed in this book offer a lucid critique of capitalism and institutional power. Perlongher's approach also reflects a particular Latin American neo-baroque style, a mode of critique whose value endures today.
Providing insight into Latin American culture and politics of the late twentieth century, Plebeian Prose will be of particular interest to anyone working on critical theory, literary theory, anthropology, sociology and gender studies.
Contents
Introduction - Cecilia Palmeiro
Prologue. Prosaic Perlongher - Christian Ferrer and Osvaldo Baigorria
Sixty-nine Questions for Néstor Perlongher
Desire and Politics
Cover Up, Girl
Loca Sex
Don't Lift the Lid, We're On Shaky Ground
Brazil: the Transvestite Invasion
A Marica is Murdered
Lust and Violence in the World of the Night
Corporal Order
Avatars of the Boys of the Night
The Force of Carnivalism
Living Room Deficiency Syndrome
Minoritary Becoming
History of the Argentinian Gay Liberation Front
The Disappearance of Homosexuality
Muddy Baroque
Sandy Beaches to Muddy Delta
Foot Fetish
Baroqueification
Cuba, Sex, and a Bridge to Buenos Aires
Dress Straps for Puig
Flows in the Fjord. Baroque and the Body in Osvaldo Lamborghini
On Alambres
Anthropology of Ecstasy
Urban Poetics
Poetry and Ecstasy
The Religion of Ayahuasca
The Argentine Falklands
All Power to Lady Di
Island Illusions
Island Desires
Eva Perón
Evita Lives
The Corpse
Macabre Gems
The Corpse of the Nation
Miscellaneous
Acronyms
Credit for Tancredo
Lake Nahuel
Blue
Corpses
Appendix
The Gay Struggle in Argentina
Biographic Timeline
Notes
Index
