Circuits of the sacred : a faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean / Carlos Ulises Decena.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Decena, Carlos Ulises, 1974- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Writing matters! (Duke University Press)

Writing matters!

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decena, Carlos Ulises, 1974-.

Decena, Carlos Ulises.

Gay people, Black--Caribbean Area.

Gay people, Black.

Black people--Caribbean Area--Religion.

Black people.

Gay immigrants--Caribbean Area.

Gay immigrants.

Queer theory.

Feminist theory.

Caribbean Area--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 191 pages).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"In Circuits of the Sacred Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational Black Latinx Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit. Decena models what he calls a faggotology-the erotic in the divine as found in the disreputable and the excessive-as foundations to queer Black critical and expressive praxis of the future. Drawing on theoretical analysis, memoir, creative writing, and ethnography of Santería/Lucumí in Santo Domingo, Havana, and New Jersey, Decena moves between languages, locations, pronouns, and genres to map the itineraries of Blackness as a "circuit," a multipronged and multisensorial field. A feminist pilgrimage and extended conversation with the dead, Decena's study is a provocative work that transforms the academic monograph into a gathering of stories, theoretical innovation, and expressive praxis to channel voices, ancestors, deities, theorists, artists, and spirits from the vantage point of radical feminism and queer of color thinking."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Pensar Maricón (Faggotology) : an introduction

Re-membered life : a composition for Egun

Bridge Crónica : a triptych, with Elegguá

Experiencing the evidence

Loving stones : a transnational Patakí

¡Santo! Repurposed flesh and the suspension of the mirror in Santería initiation

Indecent conocimientos : a suite Rasanblaj in funny keys

Epístola al futuro/an epistle to the future.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Decena, Carlos Ulises, 1974- Circuits of the sacred.

ISBN:

9781478024071

1478024070

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.