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On The Present, Utopia, and the Cari...

Soares, Kristie.

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On The Present, Utopia, and the Caribbean Intervention in Critical Theory.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	On The Present, Utopia, and the Caribbean Intervention in Critical Theory./
作者:	Soares, Kristie.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
面頁冊數:	234 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-02A(E).
標題:	Comparative literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3724816
ISBN:	9781339084800

On The Present, Utopia, and the Caribbean Intervention in Critical Theory.
Soares, Kristie.

On The Present, Utopia, and the Caribbean Intervention in Critical Theory. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 234 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015.

This dissertation engages with salsa, a Spanish Caribbean music and dance tradition of embodied playfulness, to show how joy figures as an integral part of social justice work. It argues that the Cuba, Puerto Rico, and their diasporic communities have generated a particular mode of consciousness that---while often fetishized and dismissed as carefree and erotic island living---actually dismantles hegemonic forms of gender, sexualization, and racialization. I term this consciousness "salsa epistemology," and define it as an embodied and playful way of knowing produced through Spanish Caribbean cultural practices. Salsa epistemology allows Spanish Caribbean people to navigate hardship by existing simultaneously in the everyday material circumstances of their lives and in the utopian spaces crafted in their media, literature, and philosophy. Both literally and metaphorically, it is the ability to think while one dances, or to dance while one thinks.

ISBN: 9781339084800Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a This dissertation constructs a genealogy of queer cultural production in the Spanish Caribbean during the last 60 years. It privileges queer texts because the convergence of queerness and Caribbeanness produces a generative space for understanding the role of critical utopian ways of knowing, such as salsa epistemology. Indeed it argues that salsa epistemology helps us rethink the social justice lens of both Latina/o Studies and Queer Theory by refusing to engage in the dichotomous assumption that we must attain some level of socio-political justice in order to entertain the possibility of utopia. It pushes scholars to rethink playfully how temporality has been understood in critical theory by acknowledging the back and forth that always exists between the present moment and utopia. By suggesting that embodied joy in the present is a powerful force in creating a more equitable future, this dissertation rethinks the future-oriented framework of most social justice movements to argue that justice can be reconceived as something joyful, and that the joyful can reconceived as something just.
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