The foreword offers an intimate introduction to Cruising Utopia, with the three authors having been close friends and colleagues of Muñoz at New York University and the current editors of Sexual Cultures, an influential book series Muñoz co-founded with Pelligrini. Other additions include colour reproductions of work that previously appeared in black and white, and a new foreword, ‘Before and After’, in which Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong’o and Ann Pelligrini reflect on the book’s legacy. This tenth anniversary edition - published six years after Muñoz’s death in 2013 - includes two unpublished essays that extend the scope of the original project. In the decade since its publication, Cruising Utopia has been influential across and beyond a range of academic disciplines. Building on the queer-of-colour critique developed in his previous book, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics, Cruising Utopia was situated at the intersection of performance studies, critical utopianism and a then-emergent literature on queer temporality. Rejecting the academic nihilism and political pragmatism of the time, Muñoz insisted that the queer cultural and political imagination move beyond the stagnant present in order to imagine a brighter future. José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futuritybreathed new life into North American queer studies when first published in 2009. ![]() ![]() ![]() More than ten years on from its original publication, this influential book remains a joyful and provocative read, not just for students of queer cultural history, but anyone keen to accept Muñoz’s invitation to collectively step out of ‘this place and time to something fuller, vaster, more sensual, and brighter’, writes Alex Hoyos Twomey.Ĭruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (10 th Anniversary Edition). José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity breathed new life into North American queer studies when first published in 2009, rejecting the stagnant present in arguing for queerness as a future-oriented, profoundly utopian mode of being and doing in the world.
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