Unrequited love and gay Latino culture [[electronic resource] ] : What have you done to my heart? / / by Daniel Contreras

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451103903321
• Autore: Contreras Daniel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
• ISBN: 1-281-36426-6; 9786611364267; 1-4039-7884-0
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2005.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.08968
• Soggetti: Popular culture - United States; Arts, American - 20th century; Love in literature; Suffering in literature; Electronic books.; United States Social life and customs 1971-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-141) and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing on a wide range of material from art, theater, music, and literature, Contreras argues that historical memory is embedded in these forms of art and can perhaps take us "somewhere better than this place." The critical energies in the book come from Chicana/o and queer studies. Contreras views unrequited love as a utopian space of possibility and transformation. The discussion includes The Boys in the Band, Arturo Islas, Paris is Burning, Judy Garland, and Kiss of the Spider Woman.