Jorge Olivares

Becoming Reinaldo Arenas

Family, Sexuality, and the Cuban Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Jorge Olivares connects the personal, political, and artistic trajectories of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943¿1990) to Arenas's insights into the Cuban Revolution, the struggles of exiles, and the politics of sexuality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780822353966
• ISBN-10: 0822353962
• Artikelnr.: 36270286

Autorenporträt

Jorge Olivares is the Allen Family Professor of Latin American Literature at Colby College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Note on Translations xiii
Prologue. Encountering Arenas 1
1. I Scream, Therefore I Am 7
2. Climbing the Family Tree 36
3. In Search of the Father(land) 65
4. All About Mother 91
5. Facing AIDS 114
Epilogue. After Night Falls 148
Notes 173
Works Cited 203
Index 231