Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations

✍ Scribed by Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba

Publisher: Zed Books
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 196
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Translating the Queer focuses on the dissemination of queer knowledge, concepts, and representations throughout Latin America, a migration that has been accompanied by concomitant processes of translation, adaptation, and epistemological resistance.

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