Queer Ricans

by La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9780816640928
• ISBN10: 0816640920
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-24
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

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 Ricors"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 Saacute;nchez to New York City in the 1970s and 1980s (Manuel Ramos Otero), Philadelphia and New Jersey in the 1980s and 1990s (Luz Mariacute;a Umpierre and Frances Negroacute;n-Muntaner), and Chicago (Rose Troche) and San Francisco (Erika Loacute;pez) in the 1990s, culminating with a discussion of Arthur Avileacute;s and Elizabeth Marrerors"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.

Author Biography

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is assistant professor of Latina/o studies, American culture and Romance languages and literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Table of Contents

Introduction On Queer Diasporas and Puerto Rican Migration Histories	p. ix
The Persecution of Difference	p. 1
Autobiographical Writing and Shifting Migrant Experience	p. 19
Women's Bodies, Lesbian Passions	p. 64
Visual Happenings, Queer Imaginings	p. 93
Nuyorico and the Utopias of the Everyday	p. 131
Acknowledgments	p. 169
Notes	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 193
Publication History	p. 225
Index	p. 227
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