The dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas : queering literature, politics, and the activist curriculum / Sandro R. Barros, Rafael Ocasio, and Angela L. Willis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barros, Sandro R., author.

Ocasio, Rafael, author.

Willis, Angela L., author.

Series:

Florida scholarship online.

Florida scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Authors, Cuban.

Cuban literature--20th century--Biography.

Cuban literature.

Homosexuality in literature.

Gay men's writings, Cuban.

Arenas, Reinaldo, 1943-1990--Political and social views.

Arenas, Reinaldo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2022]

Summary:

Focusing on the didactic nature of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, this text demonstrates the Cuban writer's influence as public pedagogue, mentor, and social activist whose teaching on resistance to normative ideologies resonates in societies past, present, and future.

Contents:

Reinaldo Arenas's Fearless Speech: Mapping the Parrhesiastes's Discourse as Pedagogy

"Actitudes Extravagantes" and Queering Identities: The Marginal Sexual Pedagogies of a Dissident Marielito

Colonial and Counterevolutionary Pedagogies: Homosexuality as Activism in El Central and Arturo, la estrella mas brillante

Reading Arenas through Currere: Autobiographical Lessons in Time-Traveling

Comparative Lessons from the Pariah's Text: Reinaldo Arenas's El color del verano and Juan Goytisolo's Juan sin tierra

Testifying to the Mentors? Deaths: Reinaldo Arenas's Factual and Fantastical Recreations of the Passing of Jose Lezama Lima and Virgilio Piñera.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 14, 2022).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-68340-342-8

1-68340-309-6

OCLC:

1297039163