Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Neither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In A Taste for Brown Bodies, Hiram Pérez traces the development of gay modernity and its continued romanticization of the brown body. Focusing in particular on three figures with elusive queer histories—the sailor, the soldier, and the cowboy— Pérez unpacks how each has been memorialized and desired for their heroic masculinity while at the same time functioning as agents for the expansion of the US borders and neocolonial zones of influence.
Describing an enduring homonationalism dating to the “birth” of the homosexual in the late 19th century, Pérez considers not only how US imperialist expansion was realized, but also how it was visualized for and through gay men.
By means of an analysis of literature, film, and photographs from the 19th to the 21st centuries—including Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Anne Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain,” and photos of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison—Pérez proposes that modern gay male identity, often traced to late Victorian constructions of “invert” and “homosexual,” occupies not the periphery of the nation but rather a cosmopolitan position, instrumental to projects of war, colonialism, and neoliberalism. A Taste for Brown Bodies argues that practices and subjectivities that we understand historically as forms of homosexuality have been regulated and normalized as an extension of the US nation-state, laying bare the tacit, if complex, participation of gay modernity within US imperialism.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Showing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire
2016, New York University Press
in English
1479846759 9781479846757
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
A taste for brown bodies : gay modernity and cosmopolitan desire
2015, New York University Press
1479818658 9781479818655
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3
A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire
Oct 30, 2015, NYU Press
paperback
in English
1479845868 9781479845866
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
Source title: A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire (Sexual Cultures, 23)
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?December 20, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
July 23, 2021 | Edited by Jenner | Add subjects, description |
July 17, 2021 | Edited by Jenner | Merge works |
July 19, 2019 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
February 3, 2016 | Created by Emma C. Moore | Added new book. |