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ISBN-10: 1478011033
ISBN-13: 9781478011033
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 10/02/2020
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.47" H

The Sense of Brown

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The Sense of Brown is José Esteban Muñoz’s treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, which he was completing at the time of his death, Muñoz examines the work of playwrights Ricardo Bracho and Nilo Cruz, artists Nao Bustamante, Isaac Julien, and Tania Bruguera, and singer José Feliciano, among others, arguing for a sense of brownness that is not fixed within the racial and national contours of Latinidad. This sense of brown is not about the individualized brown subject; rather, it demonstrates that for brown peoples, being exists within what Muñoz calls the brown commons-a lifeworld, queer ecology, and form of collectivity. In analyzing minoritarian affect, ethnicity as a structure of feeling, and brown feelings as they emerge in, through, and beside art and performance, Muñoz illustrates how the sense of brown serves as the basis for other ways of knowing and being in the world.

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"The final work of José Esteban Muñoz–scholar, mentor, and precious node in an intergenerational and transnational web of intellectual and social relations–will be received with eager enthusiasm and a box of tissues."–Juana María Rodríguez, author of "Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings"
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Details

ISBN-10: 1478011033
ISBN-13: 9781478011033
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 10/02/2020
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.47" H
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