Queer in the Tropics: Gender and Sexuality in the Global South

This book aims to reflect on how to translate “queer” in the context of Latin America. Queer theory is becoming consolidated on an international scale as an effort to understand dissident bodies and their inventions. But how can we utilize such a rich body of literature and proposals without merely applying in the Global South what has been formulated in the Global North?

Through meetings between dissident bodies in the Global South, the book suggests that the theoretical-poetic inventions f...