Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox: LGBT Language, New Media, and Visual Cultures in Modern-Day Brazil

The book explores the unique characteristics of sexual minorities in Brazil and their relationship to global LGBT sociopolitical movements, analyzing artistic, cinematic, and photographic representations of LGBTQ identities. It also conducts the first comprehensive discourse analysis of the largest LGBT Pride Parade in the world, problematizing the relationship between critical socio-political movements and institutions and the language and new media discourses used to configure and conceptualize them.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 15 May 2024
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the distinctive characteristics of sexual minorities in Brazil, while also placing Brazil within the broader context of global LGBT sociopolitical movements. It critically examines the complex interplay between the visual arts and political activism, meticulously analyzing artistic, cinematic, and photographic representations of LGBTQ identities. Brazil serves as a valuable case study, with its cultivation of ambiguity in contemporary (re)constructions of queer life. In this book, the author conducts the first comprehensive discourse analysis of the dynamics and features of the largest LGBT Pride Parade in the world. This analysis problematizes and analyzes the relationship between emerging critical socio-political movements and institutions and the language and new media discourses used to configure and conceptualize them. The project aims to establish a theoretical scholarly framework that fosters connections between political activism and academic scholarship, utilizing discourse analysis to delve into the intricacies of terminology adopted and adapted by Brazilian sexual minorities, thereby illustrating the evolution of LGBTQ identities through performative language use.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538150900