... original but also functions as a tool of dissent and as a space for staging an encounter with the possible. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Tupac Amaru travestismo Andean queer studies Andean cosmology In 2009, the Peruvian artist Javier Vargas Sotomayor (Javi Nefando...

...Emilie L. Bergmann Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture Michael J. Horswell Austin: University of Texas Press , 2005 . xi +331 pp . Duke University Press 2008 Emilie L. Bergmann is professor of Spanish at the University...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF 451 Queering Transculturation Emilie L. Bergmann Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture Michael J. Horswell Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xi +331 pp. If decolonization requires taking into account precolonial...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF 451 Queering Transculturation Emilie L. Bergmann Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture Michael J. Horswell Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xi +331 pp. If decolonization requires taking into account precolonial...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF 451 Queering Transculturation Emilie L. Bergmann Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture Michael J. Horswell Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xi +331 pp. If decolonization requires taking into account precolonial...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF 451 Queering Transculturation Emilie L. Bergmann Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture Michael J. Horswell Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xi +331 pp. If decolonization requires taking into account precolonial...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF 451 Queering Transculturation Emilie L. Bergmann Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture Michael J. Horswell Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xi +331 pp. If decolonization requires taking into account precolonial...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF 451 Queering Transculturation Emilie L. Bergmann Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture Michael J. Horswell Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xi +331 pp. If decolonization requires taking into account precolonial...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF 451 Queering Transculturation Emilie L. Bergmann Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture Michael J. Horswell Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xi +331 pp. If decolonization requires taking into account precolonial...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF 451 Queering Transculturation Emilie L. Bergmann Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture Michael J. Horswell Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xi +331 pp. If decolonization requires taking into account precolonial...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF 451 Queering Transculturation Emilie L. Bergmann Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture Michael J. Horswell Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xi +331 pp. If decolonization requires taking into account precolonial...

... queer/cuir and gender studies, decolonial thinking, Andean literatures, and law and literature studies, and he has published widely on these topics. His book De las cenizas al texto. Literaturas andinas de las disidencias sexuales won the 2016 Casa de las Américas Prize for best literary essay...

... and the Andean region are minimally present—at times, absent—from the three journals. These are major shortcomings. This is where the connections between structural inequalities, combined with the primary circulation of works from the Southern Cone, Mexico, and the Caribbean, collide. Or perhaps this collision...

..., peripheral spaces in the big cities that serve traditional Andean alcoholic beverages made from corn (chichas). In these historical dives of festive gathering, love affairs and political and economic agreements are woven between people from different popular social classes, such as cholas (women in peasant...

... knowledge that could illuminate the bodily flesh and matter of transgender. Katie King, for example, has written beautifully about khipu, an Andean recording device of fiber cords and knots, which let her reconsider fundamental questions such as “What counts as writing? as counting? as connecting...

... has only to see and hear for a brief moment to know that the refuge high in the lairs of vultures is the industry of a single woman. The Andean man does not know any other thing than to go down to the mines . . . and dynamite rocks. He does...

... on street children’s resilience in Bombay. Unique to Egyptian scholarship on street children is an insistence on refusing paternalizing victimization discourse, and a critique of the romanticism that characterizes some of the Andean and South Asian literature of the 1990s...