Queering the Revolution and Its Diasporas

doi:10.1017/9781009168359.041

40 - Queering the Revolution and Its Diasporas

from Part V - Cuba and Its Diasporas into the New Millennium

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2024

David Tenorio

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Vicky Unruh and

Jacqueline Loss

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Vicky Unruh: Affiliation:
University of Kansas
Jacqueline Loss: Affiliation:
University of Connecticut

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This chapter examines the work of numerous creative artists in multiple media and genres, some of whom wrote works that formed part of the Cuban literary canon, but whose lives and identities were seen as problematic for the revolutionary state. Focusing particularly on figures whose intersectional identities somehow threatened hegemonic biases, the chapter elucidates the extent to which a preoccupation with sexual practices and gender identities was at the core of the Cuban revolutionary state and the homophobic legacies it inherited from the bourgeois past. The chapter teases this out by exploring critical and theoretical rereadings, in addition to numerous musical, literary, theatrical, and cinematographic works and productions from multiple postrevolutionary periods, wherein queerness emerges as central to the nation and its diaspora.

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queerness in Cuban postrevolutionary literature and arts Cuba’s revolutionary state and hegemonic identity biases intersectional identities in Cuban literature and arts Ediciones El Puente (1961–1965)Lourdes Casal (1938–1981)Sonia Rivera Valdés (1937–)sexilio Mariel Generation CENESEX Ena Lucía Portela (1972–)

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Information: The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature , pp. 622 - 639

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009168359.041 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2024

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