Honorable Mention for LASA Sexuality Studies Prize
The Latin American Studies Associate (LASA) Sexuality Studies Section exists to promote scholarship on lesbian and gay issues across various disciplines and research fields , to connect LASA membership with scholars and activists in Latin America working on lesbian and gay issues, and to bring together those interested in ending discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people in Latin America. Each year the Sexualities Section awards two prizes for excellence in scholarship, the Sylvia Molloy Prize for best article about sexualities in the humanities and the Carlos Monsiváis Prize for best article about sexualities in the social sciences.
My article, "How to Read Copi: A Historiography of the Margins" (2013), published in Hispanic Review, recieved an honorable mention for the Sylvia Molloy prize in 2014. This is an honor that I happily share even 10 years after its publication. Read more about my article below:""
"Copi was many things. Among them, he was known as
Rau´ l Damonte Taborda, and was an Argentine novelist, dramaturge, actor,
director, and cartoonist, who called Paris home. His life and times present
a story marked by his own marginality, but also by his simultaneous protagonism
in multiple and diverse social, political, and artistic environments.
The following study looks critically at how to approach such a past and uses
Copi’s own view of subjectivity as a historical model that embraces the
confusion, contradiction, and chaos that characterized his life. Remembering
Copi in this way proposes that the memory of marginal subjectivity be
addressed and narrated from the margins of dominant epistemologies and
independently from the clarity and cohesion associated with traditional historiography."
Rau´ l Damonte Taborda, and was an Argentine novelist, dramaturge, actor,
director, and cartoonist, who called Paris home. His life and times present
a story marked by his own marginality, but also by his simultaneous protagonism
in multiple and diverse social, political, and artistic environments.
The following study looks critically at how to approach such a past and uses
Copi’s own view of subjectivity as a historical model that embraces the
confusion, contradiction, and chaos that characterized his life. Remembering
Copi in this way proposes that the memory of marginal subjectivity be
addressed and narrated from the margins of dominant epistemologies and
independently from the clarity and cohesion associated with traditional historiography."