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Unrequited love and gay Latino culture : what have you done to my heart? / by Daniel Contreras.
Van Pelt Library E169.04 .C665 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Contreras, Daniel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- United States.
- Arts, American--20th century.
- Arts, American.
- Love in literature.
- Suffering in literature.
- United States--Social life and customs--1971-.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 146 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Summary:
- This book is about valuing the sensations of loss and melancholy and the longing to transform the painful into something meaningful, the junky into something valuable. Drawing on a wide range of material from art, theater, music, and literature in order to bring something to the losses of history and culture, Contreras argues that historical memory is embedded in these forms of art and can perhaps take us "somewhere better than this place." The critical energies in the book come from Chicana/o and queer studies. Contreras views unrequited love as a utopian space of possibility and transformation. The discussion includes "The Boys in the Band," Arturo Islas, "Paris is Burning," Judy Garland, and" Kiss of the Spider Woman."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-141) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403964688
- OCLC:
- 55109181
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