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About this book
How the queer Chicano punks of post-1960s Los Angeles developed a unique politics of style
In this groundbreaking work, Joshua Javier Guzmán explores the queer punk and Chicano/Latino avant-garde art scenes in post-1968 Los Angeles from the rise of Ronald Reagan to the height of the AIDS epidemic. He demonstrates how style–as a cultural form and sensibility–becomes essential to Latino politics at the moment the utopian impulses of the 1960s begin to fade.
Guzmán uncovers how queer Latinos in Los Angeles used performance, underground media, experimental art, and literature to interrogate the limits of Chicano nationalism and the burgeoning politics of gay liberation. These subcultural forms give rise to a theory of what he calls "stylized discontent," expressed as nausea, lo-fi, ambivalence, and malaise. Each chapter of the book is framed by a specific stylized discontent, demonstrating how they were repurposed by queer punk Latinos as responses to the AIDS crisis and the rise of neoliberalisms.
Dissatisfactions highlights the middle ranges of political agency strategically utilized by queer racialized historical actors to underscore how negative feelings become instrumental to social change. Revealing new forms of activism and art that continue to structure the way we understand systemic violence and survival, Dissatisfactions insists on the significance of both the politics of style and the different styles politics may take.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Introduction: Brown Power and Its Discontents
- 1. The Style Politics of Nausea: X, Sartre, and Asco
- 2. Stripped Life: Women of Color Punk, Lo-Fi Attitude, and Feminist Print Culture
- 3. Desiring in the Dark: Framing Ambivalence in the Works of Gil Cuadros, Ray Navarro, and “Gay Latino Studies”
- 4. Twilight of the Idlers: Gregg Araki, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and the Aesthetics of Malaise
- Conclusion: Dream Damaged, or, A Portrait of Queer Latinidad
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author