Rethinking Obscenity in Latin America

In this second special issue on the cultural politics of obscenity in Latin America, we place our focus on performative configurations of subjecthood and power positions, especially as they relate to explicit public and semi-public displays of the human body. Performance studies scholar Michelle Castañeda argues that courtrooms are "little theatres" where the law puts on a show; while the theatrical presentation of the law's cruel contradictions becomes "strange" in the sense of "parodic, nonsensical, and absurd" (Castañeda Citation2023, 1-2). This special issue brings to light how notions of "the obscene" intersect with legal frameworks, performative politics, public protest, and cultural productions including artwork, photography, and literature. The performance of intimate subjectivities for the state, the market, or particular audiences produces archives that mediate embodied experiences in their most sexual and unspeakable facets

Art · Economic history · Latin Americans · Political science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

• Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings

  Juana María Rodríguez•Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures,…•2020

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