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CALL FOR PAPERS NOMADIAS MAGAZINE No. 33 2024.

Special issue sex/dissident: 25 years since the decriminalization of sodomy in Chile, and 51 years since the first homosexual protest.

NOMADÍAS CUIR/QUEER/KUIR. A political/sexual dissident speech to think about the south-south.

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Paris is Burning: The New York Ball Scene as Alternative to Conventional Gender Identities and Narrative Techniques

Authors

  • Rosario Torres Facultad de Filosofía Y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

This essay presents a film commentary on the documentary Paris is Burning, focused on the Hispanic/Latino and African-American drag queens protagonists of New York ball scene, and it also assesses how the director deconstructs traditional notions of “femininity” and “masculinity” as well as typical narrative techniques.