Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora: 23 (Cultural Studies of the Americas) - Softcover

La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816640920 ISBN 13: 9780816640928

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 2009

Synopsis

Exploring cultural expressions of Puerto Rican queer migration from the Caribbean to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes analyzes how artists have portrayed their lives and the discrimination they have faced in both Puerto Rico and the United States.

Highlighting cultural and political resistance within Puerto Rico’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender subcultures, La Fountain-Stokes pays close attention to differences of gender, historical moment, and generation, arguing that Puerto Rican queer identity changes over time and is experienced in very different ways. He traces an arc from 1960s Puerto Rico and the writings of Luis Rafael SÁnchez to New York City in the 1970s and 1980s (Manuel Ramos Otero), Philadelphia and New Jersey in the 1980s and 1990s (Luz MarÍa Umpierre and Frances NegrÓn-Muntaner), and Chicago (Rose Troche) and San Francisco (Erika LÓpez) in the 1990s, culminating with a discussion of Arthur AvilÉs and Elizabeth Marrero’s recent dance-theater work in the Bronx.

Proposing a radical new conceptualization of Puerto Rican migration, this work reveals how sexuality has shaped and defined the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.

About this title

About the Author

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is assistant professor of Latina/o studies, American culture and Romance languages and literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816640920
• ISBN 13: 9780816640928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272