From Ashes to Text by Diego Falconí Trávez
According to some chronicles of the Spanish Conquest, the violent arrival of the Conquerors to the Andes in the sixteenth century led to sex-dissident people who lived outside the dominant European cisheteropatriarchal model being burned at the stake. This act burned more than the flesh; it also charred practices, ways of life, and textualities, leaving an emptiness and a trauma that would mark the future literatures of the Andean region.
This book cannot repair those pre-sodomite texts and bodies. It seeks instead to reconsider the value of the ash, a metaphor that allows for a critical and contradictory reading of sexual dissidences in the Andean region in the twentieth century, beyond both multiculturalism and the wake of a globalized LGBTI movement. Through a comparative analysis, and drawing on theoretical perspectives such as anticoloniality, feminisms, and cuir (rather than queer) theories, the book aims to understand the value of a series of complex texts in which dissident subjectivities, practices, and desires help to broaden the understanding of the Andean.
Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas prize, the book was praised by the jury for the paradoxical and provocative way that it struggles against the abyss of past destruction and reflects on the contribution of the Global South to the often uniformist thinking around the body and its intersections.
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Ancestral Future
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Decolonial Ecology
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The Earth Gives, the Earth Wants
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Ch'ixinakax utxiwa
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Toussaint Louverture
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The Haitian Revolution
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Spheres of Insurrection
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Fugitive, Where Are You Running?
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Colonial Trauma
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Black is the Journey, Africana the Name
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We, the Decolonized
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Feminism in Africa
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Choruses and Counter-Choruses
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Dispositif of Raciality
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The House of Fantasies
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Struggles for Dignity
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Spectrology of Authoritarian Neoliberalism
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Doing Justice
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The War Against Women
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On Tropical Grounds
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The Caribbean Race Reader
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Texturing Difference
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Ibn Khaldun and the Social Sciences
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The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act
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Resolutely Black
Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Fordham University
Diego Falconí Trávez is an Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781509550166 |
| ISBN 10 | 150955016X |
| Title | From Ashes to Text |
| Author | Diego Falconí Trávez |
| Series | Critical South |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-09-16 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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