Queer Tricontinentalism

Daniel Guérin’s ‘Cuba–Paris’

Bibliographic Data

ID12224531
AuthorsJackqueline Frost (corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume35
Issue1
Pages37-52
Publication date2021-01-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThird Text (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-8822 • E-ISSN: 1475-5297
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09528822.2020.1857547
OpenAlexW3121993424
LanguageEN
Citations received2

While much has been made of connections between homosexuality and working-class politics in the work of French communist intellectual Daniel Guérin, his trajectory as a queer revolutionary anti-colonialist has been under-theorised. How do questions of race and questions of homosexuality interact in Guérin's political imaginary? In order to draw out the relation between queerness and anti-colonialism, this article examines the particularly complex example of the Cuban Revolution by analysing his self-published May 1968 brochure, 'Cuba-Paris'. Putting this brochure and his Cuban archive in dialogue with his remarks on sexuality and revolution, the article considers Guérin's late concept of 'anti-homosexual racism', and suggests that Cuba reveals a limit-case in the conjugation of Guérin's anti-colonial and queer-revolutionary commitments. The article asks how Guérin understood the coexistence of social-revolutionary and homophobic-puritanical elements within movements of national self-determination, and ruminates on what these problems mean for anti-racist queer projects in the present century

Colonialism · Communism · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Racism · Sociology · The Imaginary · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law

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