ISBN:
9780816640928
,
9780816640911
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxvii, 242 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Cultural studies of the Americas 23
Parallel Title:
Print version Queer Ricans : Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora
DDC:
306.76/6089687295073
Keywords:
Puerto Ricans Social life and customs
;
Minority gays
;
Minority gays ; United States
;
Puerto Ricans ; United States ; Social life and customs
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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. Proposing a radical new conceptualization of Puerto Rican migration, he reveals how sexuality has shaped and defined the Puerto Rican experience in the United States
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Introduction: On Queer Diasporas and Puerto Rican Migration Histories; Chapter 1 The Persecution of Difference; Chapter 2 Autobiographical Writing and Shifting Migrant Experience; Chapter 3 Women's Bodies, Lesbian Passions; Chapter 4 Visual Happenings, Queer Imaginings; Chapter 5 Nuyorico and the Utopias of the Everyday; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Publication History; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web