Revisits a foundational moment in Argentine history to demonstrate how
the crisis of modernity opened up new possibilities for imagining
kinship otherwise. Winner of the 2020 Best Book in the Nineteenth
Century Award presented by the Nineteenth Century Section of the Latin
American Studies Association As Argentina rose to political and
economic prominence at the turn of the twentieth century, debates
about the family, as an ideological structure and set of lived
relationships, took center stage in efforts to shape the modern
nation. In Argentine Intimacies, Joseph M. Pierce draws on queer
studies, Latin American studies, and literary and cultural studies to
consider the significance of one family in particular during this
period of intense social change: Carlos, Julia, Delfina, and Alejandro
Bunge. One of Argentina's foremost intellectual and elite families,
the Bunges have had a profound impact on Argentina's national culture
and on Latin American understandings of education, race, gender, and
sexual norms. They also left behind a vast archive of fiction, essays,
scientific treatises, economic programs, and pedagogical texts, as
well as diaries, memoirs, and photography. Argentine Intimacies
explores the breadth of their writing to reflect on the intersections
of intimacy, desire, and nationalism, and to expand our conception of
queer kinship. Approaching kinship as an interface of relational
dispositions, Pierce reveals the queerness at the heart of the modern
family. Queerness emerges not as an alternative to traditional values
so much as a defining feature of the state project of modernization.
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Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890−1910
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781438476834
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Suny Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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