[Many thanks to Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes for bringing this item to our attention.] Las ciudades del deseo: Las políticas de género, sexualidad y espacio urbano en el Caribe hispano [Cities of Desire: The politics of gender, sexuality and urban space in the Hispanic Caribbean]by Elena Valdez, was printed by Purdue College Press this month (November 2022). Chances are you’ll peruse the ebook at https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/psrl/3.
The ebook facilities on 5 authors: Antonio José Ponte (Cuba), Rey Reynolds Andujar (Dominican Republic), Rita Indiana (Dominican Republic), Angel Lozada (Puerto Rico), and Daniel Torres Rodríguez (Puerto Rico).
Myrna García (Syracuse College) explains: “This undertaking is especially concerned about finding out the methods during which the method to sexuality (sexualities) in these novels intentionally disassembles conventional binary approaches which have rested basically on the heterosexual matrix. This binarism is perceived by the creator as a contributor to the creation and preservation of foundational myths and patriarchal readings of areas and cultures, topics, and residents of the Hispanic Caribbean. Turning this method on its heels, this monograph explores insurance policies and traditions on gender and sexuality in these city areas from another perspective, one that’s usually hidden and silenced inside the discussions that categorical opinions or try and codify the residents who ought to symbolize the nation.”
Description: Las ciudades del deseo explores the representations of gender, sexuality, and concrete area in modern narratives from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. By analyzing a corpus of novels printed since 2000, this ebook reveals how the adjustments in city panorama create a brand new picture of town that destroys conventional gender roles and produces totally different discourses on sexuality. At moments of disaster in political agendas that passed off between 1990 and 2000, queer topics turned spokespeople outlining new nationwide initiatives on every island, whereas claiming area within the nationwide imaginary. The nation is not constructed on blood ties, patriarchal norms, or organic procreation, however fairly begins incorporating beforehand excluded racial identities and sexual practices.
By juxtaposing the narratives of the three international locations and placing into dialogue the subjects of nationality, sexuality, city area, and intercourse tourism, Las ciudades del deseo breaks away from a practice that tends to check them individually. The ebook contributes new views on an rising tradition of resistance to heteronormative dynamics and energy buildings that’s creating concurrently in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. It sheds gentle on bigger connections between literature and LGBTQ activism within the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
Elena Valdez is a lecturer at Christopher Newport College. She acquired her PhD in Hispanic literature from Rutgers. Beforehand she taught at Swarthmore Faculty. She makes a speciality of Hispanic Caribbean literature, US Latina/o literature, twentieth- by way of twenty-first-century Latin American novel, gender and queer research, and diaspora research. Inside Latina/o and Caribbean research, Valdez’s principal pursuits embrace queer sexuality, city area, nationwide id, and visible tradition. She has printed articles on modern Caribbean literature in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals akin to CENTRO: Journal of the Heart for Puerto Rican Research, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, and Letras hispanas. She was the NeMLA Summer time Fellow and a recipient of the Columbia College Libraries Analysis Award.
For extra data, see https://www.amazon.com/Las-ciudades-del-deseo-Literatures/dp/1612498175