The dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas

• Verfasst von: Barros, Sandro R. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Ocasio, Rafael [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Willis, Angela L. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas
• Titelzusatz: queering literature, politics, and the activist curriculum
• Verf.angabe: Sandro R. Barros, Rafael Ocasio, and Angela L. Willis
• Verlagsort: Gainesville
• Verlag: University of Florida Press
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: [2022]
• Umfang: xii, 272 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Bibliographie: Seite [253]-264
• ISBN: 978-1-68340-258-9
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Barros, Sandro R: Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas. - Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2022 |(DLC)2021028024
• RVK-Notation: IQ 01036
• Sach-SW: LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba
• K10plus-PPN: 1762829657

Abstract

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 José Lezama Lima and Virgilio Piñera

Abstract

"Focusing on the didactic nature of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, this book 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"

Abstract

Through a multidisciplinary approach bridging educational, historiographic, and literary perspectives, The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas illuminates how Arenas's work remains a cutting-edge source of inspiration for today's audiences, particularly LGBTQI readers. It shows how Arenas's aesthetics contain powerful insights for exploring dissensus whether in the context of Cuba, broader Pan-American and Latinx-U.S. queer movements of social justice, or transnational citizenship politics. Carefully dissecting Arenas's themes against the backdrop of his political activity, this book presents the writer's poetry, novels, and plays as a curriculum of dissidence that provides models for socially engaged intellectual activism"