Plebeian Prose

Néstor Perlongher, Frances Riddle

• Publisher: Polity
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781509534555
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism Theory
• Index: Literature

Plebeian Prose is a key work by the pioneering Argentine Brazilian anthropologist, sociologist and poet Néstor Perlongher. Perlongher, whose work has been highly influential in the development of Latin American cultural theory and literature, represents an original critical 'queer' voice in Latin American thought.

This book is an exploration of the politics of desire, questions of identity, Latin American neo-baroque aesthetics, sexual dissidence, violence and jouissance. Prompted by his reading of Gilles Deleuze, the link between politics and desire remains central to all Perlongher's reflections and gives his writings a lasting topicality. A thinker of the streets with a keen interest in those on the margins of society, the ideas that are developed in this book offer a lucid critique of capitalism and institutional power. Perlongher's approach also reflects a particular Latin American neo-baroque style, a mode of critique whose value endures today.

Providing insight into Latin American culture and politics of the late twentieth century, Plebeian Prose will be of particular interest to anyone working on critical theory, literary theory, anthropology, sociology and gender studies.

Index

Note: ‘P’ in sub-entries denotes Perlongher

• abortion 26, 27, 134
  • feminist essay on xviii
• Acevedo, Zelmar 76n
• activism vii, xxvi, 30, 67, 78
  • erotic xx
  • feminist 70
  • leftist xxiii
  • lower-middle-class union 76
  • P’s first taste of ix
  • political viii, xi, xii;
  • queer politics closely linked to x
  • sexual liberation 86
  • see also gay activists
• Adán, Martín 153
• aesthetics xii, 100, 131, 138, 149, 154, 156, 163, 168
  • banality 130
  • dated 129
  • ferocious and irreducible 157
  • P’s commitment to vii
  • profane 130
  • rejection of xvii
  • sociality 172
• Afro-Brazilian spiritualism 163, 165
• Afro-Cuban religious items 166
• ageism xii
• Agustini, Delmira 102
• AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) 71, 90
  • campaigns for prevention 89
  • death from: mass 86; scale of 59; stats on 34
  • epidemic/crisis vii, xiv, 43
  • final blow to sexual revolution xviii
  • moral panic of 62
  • only weapon to combat 44
  • outbreak/advent of 58, 89, 115
  • P’s diagnosis and battle with viii, xiv
  • panic induced by 88
  • propagandistic nature of campaign against 44
  • social apparatus built around 87
  • spectre of 36
• Aira, César 3
• Airiouca 165
• Alcalde, Ramón 180n, 181
• Aleijadinho 96
• Alfonsina (journal) 15n, 26n
• alienation 8, 130
  • fundamental x
• Almendros, Néstor
• Alonso, Dámaso 102, 118
• Alt-Right viii
• Alto Santo, Acre 165
• Amazonas state 165
• American Gay Power 76
• amnesty
  • persecutors and persecuted 67
  • political prisoners xii
• anal coitus 23, 112
  • crude descriptions of 44
  • importance bestowed to 55
• anarchists xviii, xxiii, 26, 73, 80, 126, 140, 201
  • see also Black Flag; Eros group; O Inimigo do Rei; Utopía
• Andean heritage 167
• androgyny xi, 90
  • aggressive advance of 31
• animalism 35, 74
• Anti-Oedipus (Deleuze & Guattari) xxiv, 24, 34, 35, 253n15
• anti-westernness 96
  • artform 117–18
• Antonio, João 52–3, 25...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Series Title
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Introduction – Cecilia Palmeiro
• Prologue: Prosaic Perlongher – Christian Ferrer and Osvaldo Baigorria
• Sixty-nine Questions for Néstor Perlongher
• Desire and Politics
• Muddy Baroque
• Anthropology of Ecstasy
• The Argentine Falklands
• Eva Perón
• Miscellaneous
• Appendix
• Index
• End User License Agreement