Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox
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Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox

LGBT Language, New Media, and Visual Cultures in Modern-Day Brazil

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Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox

LGBT Language, New Media, and Visual Cultures in Modern-Day Brazil

About this book

This book provides readers with a study of the characteristics that make life unique for sexual minorities in Brazil while also viewing Brazil in relation to global LGBT sociopolitical movements. It critically assesses the complex relationship(s) between the visual arts and political activism, carefully analyzing artistic, cinematic, and photographic representations of LGBTQ identities. Brazil provides a useful case to example, with the cultivation of ambiguity in contemporary (re)constructions of queer life. In this book, the author conducts the first comprehensive discourse analysis of the dynamics and features of the largest LGBT Pride Parade in the world. This problematizes and analyzes the relationship between burgeoning critical socio-political movements and institutions and the language and new media discourses used to configure and conceptualize them.

The aim of this project is to create a theoretical scholarly framework promoting linkages between political activism and academic scholarship and by using discourse analysis, the intricacies of terminology Brazilian sexual minorities adopt and adapt, illustrating the development of LGBTQ identities through performative language use.

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Yes, you can access Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox by Steven F. Butterman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politica e relazioni internazionali & Politica globale. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. List of Figures and Illustrations
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: Pondering the Paradise of Paradox: LGBTI+ Culture in Brazil Today
  4. 1 A Decade of Decadence: The Emergence of the Largest Gay Pride Parade on the Planet (1997–2006)
  5. 2 Winter (Off-Season Carnival)? Progression and Retrogression in São Paulo’s LGBT Pride Parade (2007–2011)
  6. 3 the LGBT Pride Parade of São Paulo: Fake News and the (Ab)uses of Social Media Platforms in Digital Brazil (2012–2020)
  7. 4 Looking Them Up (and Down): What (Homo)sexuality Means in Brazilian Reference Works
  8. 5 Translating Trans in Brazilian Culture
  9. 6 Tracing the Trenches of the Travesty: Trans Photography and Artivism in Brazil
  10. 7 (For)getting Far Away from Home: Cinematic Representations of Twenty-First-Century (LGB)Trans Brazil
  11. 8 What’s Queer Got to Do with It? Queernormativity and Heterobrasilidade in Brazil’s
  12. Epilogue: The (R)evolving Closet Door in LGBT Brazil
  13. Appendix: The Queer-stionnaire (Queer-Stionário)
  14. Notes
  15. Filmography of Twenty-First-Century LGBT Brazilian Cinema
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. About the Author