Machos Maricones & Gays
Title | Machos Maricones & Gays PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Lumsden |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2010-06-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1439905592 |
A historically based, first-hand report of contemporary homosexuality in Cuban society and culture.
Machos, Maricones, and Gays
Title | Machos, Maricones, and Gays PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Lumsden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Gays |
ISBN | 9781899365852 |
Gay Cuban Nation
Title | Gay Cuban Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Emilio Bejel |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2001-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0226041743 |
With Gay Cuban Nation, Emilio Bejel looks at Cuba's markedly homoerotic culture through writings about homosexuality, placing them in the social and political contexts that led up to the Cuban Revolution. By reading against the grain of a wide variety of novels, short stories, autobiographies, newspaper articles, and films, he maps out a fascinating argument about the way in which nationalism and other institutions of power struggle for an authoritative stance on homosexual issues. Through close readings of writers such as José Martí, Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta, Carlos Montenegro, José Lezama Lima, Severo Sarduy, Achy Obejas, Sonia Rivera-Valdés, and Reinaldo Arenas, Gay Cuban Nation shows ultimately that the specter of homosexuality is always lurking in the shadows of nationalist discourse.
Eminent Maricones
Title | Eminent Maricones PDF eBook |
Author | Jaime Manrique |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780299161842 |
One of the leading Latino writers working today offers a provocative autobiography interweaving his own story with the lives of three other gay Hispanic authors: Manuel Puig, Reinaldo Arenas, and Federico Garcia Lorca.
Oye Loca
Title | Oye Loca PDF eBook |
Author | Susana Peña |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2013-08-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0816686688 |
During only a few months in 1980, 125,000 Cubans entered the United States as part of a massive migration known as the Mariel boatlift. The images of boats of all sizes, in various conditions, filled with Cubans of all colors and ages, triggered a media storm. Fleeing Cuba’s repressive government, many homosexual men and women arrived in the United States only to face further obstacles. Deemed “undesirables” by the U.S. media, the Cuban state, and Cuban Americans already living in Miami, these new entrants marked a turning point in Miami’s Cuban American and gay histories. In Oye Loca, Susana Peña investigates a moment of cultural collision. Drawing from first-person stories of Cuban Americans as well as government documents and cultural texts from both the United States and Cuba, Peña reveals how these discussions both sensationalized and silenced the gay presence, giving way to a Cuban American gay culture. Through an examination of the diverse lives of Cuban and Cuban American gay men, we learn that Miami’s gay culture was far from homogeneous. By way of in-depth interviews, participant observation, and archival analysis, Peña shows that the men who crowded into small apartments together, bleached their hair with peroxide, wore housedresses in the street, and endured ruthless insults challenged what it meant to be Cuban in Miami. Making a critical incision through the study of heteronormativity, homosexualities, and racialization, ultimately Oye Loca illustrates how a single historical event helped shape the formation of an entire ethnic and sexual landscape.
A Contemporary Cuba Reader
Title | A Contemporary Cuba Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Brenner |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780742555075 |
A collection of essays that explore a wide range of topics related to Cuban politics, economics, foreign policy, social transformation, and culture in the post-Soviet era.
Gay Latino Studies
Title | Gay Latino Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Hames-García |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2011-04-13 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 0822349558 |
A collection of essays that explores the lives and cultural contributions of gay Latino men in the United States, and analyzes the political and theoretical stakes of gay Latino studies.