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Under Bright Lights : Gay Manila and the Global Scene /
'Under Bright Lights' vividly describes the emergence in twenty-first century Manila of a 'bright lights' scene: a world composed of dance clubs, upmarket bars, party circuits, and other commercial sites that evoke images of a gay globe, but which remain bound to a landscape of d...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2014]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 'Under Bright Lights' vividly describes the emergence in twenty-first century Manila of a 'bright lights' scene: a world composed of dance clubs, upmarket bars, party circuits, and other commercial sites that evoke images of a gay globe, but which remain bound to a landscape of disorder, mass poverty, and urban decay. Benedicto argues that queer world-making practices sustain elite desires for global modernity and the class, gender, and racial orders that structure urban life in the post-colony. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (248 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781452943343 |