Eminent maricones : Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and me / Jaime Manrique.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manrique, Jaime, 1949-

Series:

Living out.

Living out

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manrique, Jaime, 1949-.

Manrique, Jaime.

Authors, Colombian--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Colombian.

Authors, Spanish American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Spanish American.

Authors, Spanish--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Spanish.

Gay men--Latin America--Biography.

Gay men.

Gay men--Spain--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jaime Manrique weaves into his own memoir the lives of three important twentieth-century Hispanic writers: the Argentine Manuel Puig, author of Kiss of the Spider Woman; the Cuban Reinaldo Arenas, author of Before Night Falls; and Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. Manrique celebrates the lives of these heroic writers who were made outcasts for both their homosexuality and their politics.

Contents:

1. Legs : a memoir of childhood and adolescence

2. Manuel Puig: the writer as diva

3. The last days of Reinaldo Arenas : a sadness as deep as the sea

4. Federico Garcia Lorca and internalized homophobia

5. The other Jaime Manrique : a dead soul

6. Nowadays.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786612788208

9780299161897

0299161897

9781282788206

1282788205

9780299161835

0299161838

OCLC:

673421749

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access