Andrés Caicedo Queer: ¡Que viva la música!, a manifest of sexual and cultural subversión against colonial heritage in Cali
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This paper proposes a queer and decolonizing reading of the novel “¡Que viva la música!”, published in Colombia in 1977 and written by Andrés Caicedo from Cali. The analysis presented here posits that María del Carmen Huerta, the novel's heroine, relinquishes her social class and embraces the life experiences of the lower classes in the city of Cali, in a process of subversion against the discursive regime concerning her body and sexuality. It is also argued that the vector of subversion in the novel is salsa music. Drawing from the analyses of Michel Foucault, Teresa de Lauretis, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Gayle Rubin, José Esteban Muñoz, and Judith Butler it is demonstrated that any queer attempt in Colombia - and Latin America - must undergo a process of dismantling the discursive regimes of the political, economic, and cultural power of the upper classes.
- And´res Caicedo
- Colombian Literature
- Cali
- gender
- salsa
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