Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora

Author:   Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes ,  Fountain-Stokes La, Lawrence
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Volume:   23
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9781299949454


Pages:   273
Publication Date:   01 January 2009
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Exploring cultural expressions of Puerto Rican queer migration from the Caribbean to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, Lawrence La Fountain Stokes analyzes how artists have portrayed their lives and the discrimination they have faced in both Puerto Rico and the United States. Highlighting cultural and political resistance within Puerto Rico s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender subcultures, La Fountain Stokes pays close attention to differences of gender, historical moment, and generation, arguing that Puerto Rican queer identity changes over time and is experienced in very different ways. He traces an arc from 1960s Puerto Rico and the writings of Luis Rafael Sanchez to New York City in the 1970s and 1980s (Manuel Ramos Otero), Philadelphia and New Jersey in the 1980s and 1990s (Luz Maria Umpierre and Frances Negron-Muntaner), and Chicago (Rose Troche) and San Francisco (Erika Lopez) in the 1990s, culminating with a discussion of Arthur Aviles and Elizabeth Marrero s recent dance theater work in the Bronx. Proposing a radical new conceptualization of Puerto Rican migration, this work reveals how sexuality has shaped and defined the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.

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Author:   Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes ,  Fountain-Stokes La, Lawrence
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Volume:   23
ISBN:  

9781299949454


ISBN 10:   1299949452
Pages:   273
Publication Date:   01 January 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Undefined
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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