Snake 'n' Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret by Michael Kupperman

Snake 'n' Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret by Michael Kupperman

This compelling study of gender and sexual diversity in the Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the politics of national and ethnic identities and processes of cultural transformation in a world of contract labourers and transnational consumers. The book focuses, in particular, on the meaning and experience of local 'gays' -- transvestite/transgender-homosexual men -- who are at once celebrated as purveyors of beauty (defined in terms of a global American otherness) and valorized as impotent men and defiled women. In short, America functions both as a sign of their abjected status and as a space for imagining and reformulating various gendered identities. This innovative work -- one of the first ethnographic studies to be published in the aftermath of the region's civil unrest -- will be of interest to anyone working on gender, the body and sexuality. Not only does it extend the boundaries of cross-cultural studies of non-mainstream genders and sexualities by directly engaging the entanglement of local sensibilities with global images and discourse, but it also demonstrates that there is nothing ambiguous about ambiguity -- gendered, sexual or otherwise. Rather, this ambiguity is the specific product of different historical relations of power through which various cultural subjects are created and re-create themselves.

Kupperman, Michael: - Michael Kupperman's comic drawings and strips have appeared in dozens of publications including The New Yorker, Fortune, The New York Times, Nickelodeon Magazine, Forbes, Fast Company, Esquire, Heavy Metal, and McSweeney's; comic books for DC, Marvel, and others; and been collected in multiple books, including five of his own. They've also been animated for Saturday Night Live, Adult Swim, and Comedy Central. Conan O'Brian described him as probably one of the greatest comedy brains on the planet. This is his first serious book. Michael lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Muire, and son, Ulysses.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9780380807901
ISBN 10	0380807904
Titel	Snake 'n' Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret
Autor	Michael Kupperman
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2000-09-01
Seitenanzahl	128
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.