Queer ducks, Puerto Rican patos, and Jewish- American feygelekh: birds and the cultural representation of homosexuality
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| contents | Queer ducks, Puerto Rican patos, and Jewish- American feygelekh: birds and the cultural representation of homosexuality Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Sociología ducks homosexuality queer language animal metaphors Internet cartoons This article explores popular linguistic and artistic usages of birds asmetaphors for male and female homosexuality and for divergent genderexpression in the Americas and Europe, focusing on Puerto Rico and theUnited States. First, I analyze the lexical coincidence of the phrase queer duckwith terms in Spanish and Yiddish such as pato, pata, and feygele. I then go onto discuss Puerto Rican and diasporic cultural productions engaging thesetropes, including works by Alfredo Collado Martell, Luis Lloréns Torres,Alfredo Villanueva-Collado, Ángel Lozada, Frances Negrón-Muntaner,Alexandra Pagán Vélez, and the Arthur Avilés Typical Theatre, as well as myown performance piece, Abolición del pato. I conclude by analyzing the Jewish-American Internet flash animation and motion picture Queer Duck andHarvey Fiersteins children´s book and the HBO animated film The SissyDuckling. This comparative linguistic and cultural analysis helps tounderstand strategies of negotiation of divergent sexual and genderexpression in diverse social contexts, and demonstrates the creativereappropriation and resemantization of stigmatized terms. 2007 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37719111 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.1 Vol.XIX |
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| spellingShingle | Queer ducks, Puerto Rican patos, and Jewish- American feygelekh: birds and the cultural representation of homosexuality Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Sociología ducks homosexuality queer language animal metaphors Internet cartoons Queer ducks, Puerto Rican patos, and Jewish- American feygelekh: birds and the cultural representation of homosexuality Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Sociología ducks homosexuality queer language animal metaphors Internet cartoons This article explores popular linguistic and artistic usages of birds asmetaphors for male and female homosexuality and for divergent genderexpression in the Americas and Europe, focusing on Puerto Rico and theUnited States. First, I analyze the lexical coincidence of the phrase queer duckwith terms in Spanish and Yiddish such as pato, pata, and feygele. I then go onto discuss Puerto Rican and diasporic cultural productions engaging thesetropes, including works by Alfredo Collado Martell, Luis Lloréns Torres,Alfredo Villanueva-Collado, Ángel Lozada, Frances Negrón-Muntaner,Alexandra Pagán Vélez, and the Arthur Avilés Typical Theatre, as well as myown performance piece, Abolición del pato. I conclude by analyzing the Jewish-American Internet flash animation and motion picture Queer Duck andHarvey Fiersteins children´s book and the HBO animated film The SissyDuckling. This comparative linguistic and cultural analysis helps tounderstand strategies of negotiation of divergent sexual and genderexpression in diverse social contexts, and demonstrates the creativereappropriation and resemantization of stigmatized terms. 2007 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37719111 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.1 Vol.XIX |
| title | Queer ducks, Puerto Rican patos, and Jewish- American feygelekh: birds and the cultural representation of homosexuality |
| topic | Sociología ducks homosexuality queer language animal metaphors Internet cartoons |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37719111 |