{"product_id":"bottoms-up-9781479829156","title":"Bottoms Up","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProposes a queer way to be in the world and with others\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvoking queer aesthetics, ethics, and politics, \u003ci\u003eBottoms Up\u003c\/i\u003e explores a sexual way to be with others while living with loss. Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez demonstrates how aesthetic representations of sexnamely, bottomingfunction as allegorical paradigms, revealing the assemblages of violence that have constituted the social, cultural, and political shifts of Mexico and US Latinx culture from 1950 to the present.\u003cbr\u003eWith playful, theoretically nuanced prose, Cervantes-Gómez builds upon queer of color theory and continental philosophy to present the bottom as a form of relational performance, which she terms pasivo ethics. The argument develops through a series of compelling case studies, including a series of novels by Octavio Paz and Luis Zapata that trace the position of the bottom in Mexican nationalist literature; the forms of exposure, risk, and proximity in the performance work of artist Lechedevirgen Trimeg\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409069384023,"sku":"9781479829156","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479829156.jpg?v=1730505322","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bottoms-up-9781479829156","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}