Decolonizing the Sodomite Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture

Name: Decolonizing the Sodomite Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture
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ISBN: 9780292712676

ISBN-10: 0292712677

ISBN-13: 9780292712676

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michael J. Horswell

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Early Andean historiography reveals a subaltern history of indigenous gender and sexuality that saw masculinity and femininity not as essential absolutes. 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. Ritual performance by cross-dressed men symbolically created a third space of mediation that invoked the mythic androgyne of the pre-Hispanic Andes. The missionaries and civil authorities colonizing the Andes deemed these performances transgressive and sodomitical. In this book, Michael J. Horswell examines alternative gender and sexuality in the…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 345
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

MICHAEL J. HORSWELL is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature, Director of Graduate Studies, and Associate Chair of the Department of Languages and Linguistics at Florida Atlantic University. He is also the university's Director of Caribbean and Latin American Studies.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Transculturating Tropes of Sexuality, Tinkuy, and Third Gender in the Andes



Barbudos, Afeminados, and Sodomitas: Performing Masculinity in Premodern Spain



Decolonizing Queer Tropes of Sexuality: Chronicles and Myths of Conquest



From Supay Huaca to Queer Mother: Revaluing the Andean Feminine and Androgyne



Church and State: Inventing Queer Penitents and Tyrannical Others



Subaltern Hybridity?


Inca Garcilaso and the Transculturation of Gender and Sexuality in the Comentarios Reales


Epilogue: Dancing the Tinkuy, Mediating Difference


Notes


Bibliography


Index