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The oxymoron of sexual sovereignty: Some Puerto Rican literary reflections
Titel:
The oxymoron of sexual sovereignty: Some Puerto Rican literary reflections
Auteur:
Cruz Malavé, Arnaldo
Verschenen in:
Centro journal
Paginering:
Jaargang XIX (2007) nr. 1 pagina's 50-73
Jaar:
2007
Inhoud:
What is the relationship of sexuality, especially ¿queer¿ sexuality, to sovereignty in a colonial setting such as Puerto Rico´s? This essay revisits sexuality as a troubling, and often oxymoronic, trope for the formation of a geographically bounded sense of community or nation in modern Puerto Rican texts. What is the relationship of this sexual trope to Puerto Rico´s political status as defined by the U.S. Supreme Court in its also notoriously oxymoronic Insular Cases? Does the excessive sexual trope to which Puerto Rican literary texts insistently return point to an area of agency or selfdetermination still worth pursuing or advocating? Through an examination of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben´s recent meditations on sovereignty and on its implications for political action in what he calls our contemporary, globalized ¿state of exception¿ this essay explores those timely questions. And it does so, especially, by returning to the work that inspired Agamben´s meditations, the work of the German Jewish philosopher and critic, Walter Benjamin.
Uitgever:
City University of New York : Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños (provided by DOAJ)
Bronbestand:
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
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