This book examines Latin America's history of engagement with cosmopolitanisms as a manner of asserting a genealogy that links cultural critique in Latin America and the United States. Cosmopolitanism is crucial to any discussion of Latin America, and Latin Americanism as a discipline. Reinaldo Arenas and Diamela Eltit become nodal points to discuss a wide range of issues that include the pedag…
Chapter 1: Why it´s important to look at gay natives’ history? -- Chapter 2: “Between the cross and the crown”: Missionaries and indigenous sexuality -- Chapter 3: Becoming “useful citizens”: the control over natives and their sexualities -- Chapter 4: Race, Sex and Civilization: The colonization of indigenous sexualities -- Chapter 5: When to exist is to resist.This book unveils an …