Olivares Jorge Olivares

Becoming Reinaldo Arenas (eBook, PDF)

Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Becoming Reinaldo Arenas explores the life and work of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), who emerged on the Latin American cultural scene in the 1960s and quickly achieved literary fame. Yet as a political dissident and an openly gay man, Arenas also experienced discrimination and persecution; he produced much of his work amid political controversy and precarious living conditions. In 1980, having survived ostracism and incarceration in Cuba, he arrived in the United States during the Mariel boatlift. Ten years later, after struggling with poverty and AIDS in New York, Arenas committed suicide.Through insightful close readings of a selection of Arenas's works, including unpublished manuscripts and correspondence, Olivares examines the writer's personal, political, and artistic trajectory, focusing on his portrayals of family, sexuality, exile, and nostalgia. He documents Arenas's critical engagement with cultural and political developments in revolutionary Cuba and investigates the ways in which Arenas challenged literary and national norms. Olivares's analysis shows how Arenas drew on his life experiences to offer revealing perspectives on the Cuban Revolution, the struggles of Cuban exiles, and the politics of sexuality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822397588
• Artikelnr.: 54789018

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