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Activism
Author_Angela L. Willis
Author_Rafael Ocasio
Author_Sandro R. Barros
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Cuban
Cuban literature
Cuban Revolution
Cuban-American
CubanTeacher
cultural studies
Curriculum Theory
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Gay and Queer Cuban Dissidence
Gay men's writings
Homosexuality in Literature
Immigrant Studies
Latin American
LGBTQ
Mariel Studies
mentor
public intellectual
Queer Pedagogy
Queer Theory
Refugee Studies
Reinaldo Arenas
Social Activist
Product details
- ISBN 9781683402589
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
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.
Sandro R. Barros, assistant professor in the Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education program at Michigan State University, is the author of Competing Truths in Contemporary Latin American Literature: Narrating Otherness, Marginality, and the Politics of Representation.
Rafael Ocasio is Charles A. Dana Professor of Spanish at Agnes Scott College. He is the author of A Gay Cuban Activist in Exile: Reinaldo Arenas and Cuba’s Political and Sexual Outlaw: Reinaldo Arenas.
Angela L. Willis is professor of Hispanic studies and Latin American studies at Davidson College.
Rafael Ocasio is Charles A. Dana Professor of Spanish at Agnes Scott College. He is the author of A Gay Cuban Activist in Exile: Reinaldo Arenas and Cuba’s Political and Sexual Outlaw: Reinaldo Arenas.
Angela L. Willis is professor of Hispanic studies and Latin American studies at Davidson College.
