From Aura to Awra: Toward a Tropical Queer Decolonial Performativity in the Philippines
If datíng is to literary texts, awra is to queer decolonial performances. From the works of Bienvenido Lumbera and Walter Benjamin, this paper discusses the queering of the term aura and how it operates in tropical performances and discourses, through beki (gay language), as awra. The sign “awra”...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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James Cook University
2023-06-01
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Series: | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics |
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Online Access: | https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3966 |