Buch
Monografie
Decolonizing the sodomite : queer tropes of sexuality in colonial Andean culture
Verfasst von:
Horswell, Michael J.
Austin, Tex.:
Univ. of Texas Press
,
2005
,
331 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Horswell, Michael J. |
| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
| Jahr: | 2005 |
| ISBN: | 0292712677 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| In this book the author looks at early Andean culture. There indigenous gender and sexuality existed and masculinity and femininity were not seen as essential absolutes. For example the third-gender ritualists, Ipas, mediated between the masculine and feminine spheres of culture in important ceremonies and were recorded in fragments of myths and transcribed oral accounts. The colonizers regarded these performances transgressive and sodomitical. Michael J. Horswell deconstructes what literary tropes of sexuality reveal about Andean pre-Hispanic and colonial indigenous culture. The result is an alternative history and interpretation of the much-maligned aboriginal subjects the Spanish often referred to as "sodomites." Horswell traces the origin of the dominant tropes of masculinist sexuality from canonical medieval texts to early modern Spanish secular and moralist literature produced in the context of material persecution of effeminates and sodomites in Spain. These values traveled to the Andes and were used as powerful rhetorical weapons in the struggle to justify the conquest of the Incas. | |
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