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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Main Author: John Paolo Sarce
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2023-06-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
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Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3966