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” i...

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Main Author: Sarce, John Paolo
Format: text
Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
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Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/184
https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/english-faculty-pubs/article/1184/viewcontent/1_sarce_queer_philippines.pdf
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Institution: Ateneo De Manila University