Bibliograph

Queerly Cosmopolitan, Bohemia and Belonging in a Brazilian Middle-of-Nowhere City, by Timothy Eugene Murphy

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Queerly Cosmopolitan, Bohemia and Belonging in a Brazilian Middle-of-Nowhere City, by Timothy Eugene Murphy

Language

eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Queerly Cosmopolitan

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1086461163

Responsibility statement

by Timothy Eugene Murphy

Series statement

Springer eBooksSpringer eBooks.

Sub title

Bohemia and Belonging in a Brazilian Middle-of-Nowhere City

Summary

An ethnography of urban citizenship, global belonging, and queerness in a rapidly growing provincial city in the Global South, Queerly Cosmopolitan explores how people develop a sense of belonging in a city understood by many to be “unimportant” and “in the middle of nowhere.” In his exploration of the city of Teresina and its inhabitants’ attempts to establish a sense of belonging and self-worth, Timothy Eugene Murphy creatively employs queer theory to investigate a community of bohemians. As he follows the participants through different realms of life—nocturnal bohemia, work, family, and intimate friendships—Murphy demonstrates how widely circulating cultural forms, from music to sexuality, offer upwardly mobile communities ways to fashion cosmopolitan lives in even the most peripheral locations.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

1. A Middle-of-Nowhere Somewhere -- 2. From Terehell to Terenowhere: Place-making in Teresina -- 3. Chique Distinction in a Big Small Town -- 4. Nocturnal Bohemia -- 5. Black Sheep by Day -- 6. Friends of Dusk and Dawn -- 7. Epilogue

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