The uneasy masculinities of dissidence and exile
Reinaldo Arenas's fight for textual-sexual freedom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178464 |
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| Authors | Daphne Grace (0000-0002-9032-3959), Daphne M Grace (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 309-319 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449850903064906 |
| OpenAlex | W2093147769 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The exiled Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas, regarded as a dangerous “counter‐revolutionary” by his government, uses alternative sexualities as both means and metaphor of social insurgence. As a writer, he foregrounds traumatic and personalized issues of politics and sexuality – critiquing both communism and capitalism – in order to explicate the meaning of freedom from homosexual and human rights perspectives. This article investigates how Arenas pushes the limits of satire and the absurd as postcolonial strategies for liberating oppressed masculinities
Aesthetics · Art · Capitalism · Communism · Human sexuality · Literature · Meaning (existential · Metaphor · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Cuban History and Society · Latin American Literature Studies · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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