Unrequited Love and Gay Latino Culture : What Have You Done to My Heart? / by D. Contreras.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Contreras, Daniel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Latin America.

Ethnology.

Culture.

Literature.

Sex.

Latino Culture.

Latin American Culture.

Gender Studies.

Local Subjects:

Latino Culture.

Latin American Culture.

Literature.

Gender Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on a wide range of material from art, theater, music, and literature, 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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: "What Have You Done to My Heart?": Unrequited Love and The Question of Utopia

1 The Boys in the Band: Camp and the Heartbreak of Race

2 "Letting Go of What you Love": Literature, Popular Culture, and Chicano Heartache

3 Utopian Drag and Gender Politics

4 Kiss: Utopian Romance and Manuel Puig's Spider Woman

Conclusion: Somewhere Better Than This Place/Nowhere Better Than This Place

References

Index

A

B

C

D

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-141) and index.

ISBN:

9786611364267

9781281364265

1281364266

9781403978844

1403978840

OCLC:

560463103