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Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic

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Ana-Maurine Lara
2020
Published by: Rutgers University Press
Series: Critical Caribbean Studies
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Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize (Latin American Studies Association​)

Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in their struggle for subjectivity, recognition, and rights. Drawing on ethnographic encounters, film and video, and interviews, LGBTQ community leaders teach readers about streetwalking, confrontación, flipping the script, cuentos, and the use of strategic universalisms in the exercise of power and agency. Rooted in Maria Lugones's theorization of streetwalker strategies and Audre Lorde's theorization of silence and action, this text re-imagines the exercise and locus of power in examples provided by the living, thriving LGBTQ community of the Dominican Republic.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

pp. i-vi

Contents

pp. vii-x

Introduction: Where the Locas Are

pp. 1-38

Part I: Street Smarts

pp. 39-42

1. Christian Coloniality

pp. 43-64

2. Sexual Terror

pp. 65-90

Part II: Streetwalking

pp. 91-94

3. Confrontación

pp. 95-124

4. Flipping the Script

pp. 125-144

5. Cuentos

pp. 145-169

Conclusion: On Silence Transformed

pp. 170-176

Acknowledgments

pp. 177-180

Notes

pp. 181-188

References

pp. 189-204

Index

pp. 205-212

About the Author

pp. 213
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