Title: Homosexuality and Invisibility in Revolutionary Cuba: Reinaldo Arenas and Tom�s Guti�rrez Alea
Publisher: Tamesis Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1855662884
ISBN 13: 9781855662889
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Brand New
Weight: 0.43 kilograms

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Offers alternative insights into the complex relationship between politics and intelligentsia in revolutionary Cuba.

This work offers an alternative insight into the longstanding and conflicting relationship between politics and the (gay) intelligentsia in Cuba by looking closely at political texts, film, documentaries and literature from priorto Fidel Castro's regime until the present day. The book offers new readings of the work, letters and interviews of two influential voices, Reinaldo Arenas and Tom�s Guti�rrez Alea. Arenas's material reveals a new account of the nature of 'the voice of the invisibles' and the key elements of the construction of a Cuban national rhetoric that looks at (governmental) power and (gay) resistance as being in perpetual tension, which often increases the feelingof moral panic and even social exclusion and displacement among citizens. The book also offers a new interpretation of Guti�rrez Alea's renowned film Fresa y Chocolate (1994), resulting from the use of unpublished and revealing testimonies of the Cuban dance critic and writer Roger Salas and the secret messages inferred in his short story 'Helados de pasi�n: El cordero, la lluvia y el hombre desnudo' (1998).

Dr MARIA E. L�PEZ is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Sociology at London Metropolitan University and an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London.

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MAR�A E. L�PEZ is a Reader in Sociology at London Metropolitan University.

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