Queer Ricans : cultures and sexualities in the diaspora /

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 Pu...

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Main Author: La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Martin), 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009
Series:Cultural studies of the Americas ; 23.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: On queer diasporas and Puerto Rican migration histories
  • The persecution of difference
  • Autobiographical writing and shifting migrant experience
  • Women's bodies, lesbian passions
  • Visual happenings, queer imaginings
  • Nuyorico and the utopias of the everyday.