This work offers an alternative insight into the longstanding and conflicting relationship between politics and the (gay) intelligentsia in Cuba by looking closely at political texts, film, documentaries and literature from prior to Fidel Castro's regime until the present day. The book offers n...

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1. Verfasser:	Martín López, María Encarnación (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Tamesis 2015
Schriftenreihe:	Colección Támesis 348
Schlagworte:	Arenas, Reinaldo / 1943-1990 Gutiérrez Alea, Tomás / 1928-1996 Arenas, Reinaldo > 1943-1990 Gutiérrez Alea, Tomas > 1928-1996 Geschichte 1950-2015 Gay rights / Cuba Homophobia / Cuba Sex / Political aspects / Cuba Geistesleben Unterdrückung Homosexualität Kuba
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Zusammenfassung:	This work offers an alternative insight into the longstanding and conflicting relationship between politics and the (gay) intelligentsia in Cuba by looking closely at political texts, film, documentaries and literature from prior to Fidel Castro's regime until the present day. The book offers new readings of the work, letters and interviews of two influential voices, Reinaldo Arenas and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Arenas's material reveals a new account of the nature of 'the voice of the invisibles' and the key elements of the construction of a Cuban national rhetoric that looks at (governmental) power and (gay) resistance as being in perpetual tension, which often increases the feeling of moral panic and even social exclusion and displacement among citizens. The book also offers a new interpretation of Gutiérrez Alea's renowned film <I>Fresa y Chocolate</I> (1994), resulting from the use of unpublished and revealing testimonies of the Cuban dance critic and writer Roger Salas and the secret messages inferred in his short story 'Helados de pasión: El cordero, la lluvia y el hombre desnudo' (1998). <BR><BR> Dr María E. López is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Sociology at London Metropolitan University and an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022) Beyond the margins of visibility: contextualising homophobia in Cuba -- Reinaldo arenas and his struggle against invisibility -- Tomas Gutierrez Alea: a failed attempt to portray the reconciliation with the Marginal
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xi, 216 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781782045274
DOI:	10.1017/9781782045274