"More than a place , Queer Argentina names both a historical experience and the possibility of new cartographies and temporalities--a crossroad where the North no longer embodies democratic progress and queer avant-garde, and the allegedly backward, regressive South offers concrete examples of remarkable--if fragile--legal victories and cultural experiments on queer life. At the heart of this dislocation, Matthew Edwards traces the challenges and possibilities for queer cultures today, less interested in the affirmation of recognizable identities than in the ability of literary and aesthetic production to imagine other sociabilities, alternative publics, new forms of life. In doing this, he brings to light new cultural repertoires . and asks provoking questions that mobilize classic themes of queer thinking, such as the closet, utopia or non-normative communities. Queer Argentina is a refreshing, highly stimulating and timely reading of queer Argentine cultures in the light of recent historical transformations and emerging cultural cartographies." (Gabriel Giorgi, Associate Professor of Spanish at New York University, USA).