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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970556303321

Autore

Contreras Daniel

Titolo

Unrequited Love and Gay Latino Culture : What Have You Done to My Heart? / / by D. Contreras

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005

ISBN

9786611364267

9781281364265

1281364266

9781403978844

1403978840

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

306.08968

Soggetti

Ethnology - Latin America

Culture

Literature

Sex

Latino Culture

Latin American Culture

Gender Studies

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.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "What Have You Done to My Heart?": Unrequited Love and The Question of Utopia -- 1 The Boys in the Band: Camp and the Heartbreak of Race -- 2 "Letting Go of What you Love": Literature, Popular Culture, and Chicano Heartache -- 3 Utopian Drag and Gender Politics -- 4 Kiss: Utopian Romance and Manuel Puig's Spider Woman -- Conclusion: Somewhere Better Than This Place/Nowhere Better Than This Place -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

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.