Gay Cuban Nation - Couverture souple

Bejel, Emilio

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226041743 ISBN 13 : 9780226041742

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2001

Synopsis

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, Bejel maps out a fascinating argument about the way in which different attitudes toward power and nationalism struggle for an authoritative stance on homosexual issues. Through close readings of writers such as José Martí, Alfonso Hernández-Catá, Carlos Montenegro, José Lezama Lima, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, and Reinaldo Arenas, whose heartbreaking autobiography, Before Night Falls, has enjoyed renewed popularity, Gay Cuban Nation shows that the category of homosexuality is always lurking, ghostlike, in the shadows of nationalist discourse. The book stakes out Cuba's sexual battlefield, and will challenge the homophobia of both Castro's revolutionaries and Cuban exiles in the States.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Emilio Bejel is a professor of Spanish American literature and literary theory at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In addition to seven collections of poetry and five books in Spanish, Bejel is the author of José Lezama Lima, Poet of the Image.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226041743
• ISBN 13: 9780226041742
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 282
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible