From Aura to Awra: Toward a Tropical Queer Decolonial Performativity in the Philippines

• Main Author: Sarce, John Paolo
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
• Subjects: Aura; Awra; Queer Decolonialization; Queer Tropics; Queer Performance; Philippines; Arts and Humanities; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• 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
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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...