Queer Ricans

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Queer Ricans

Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Table of Contents

$22.50 paper
ISBN: 978-0-8166-4092-8

$67.50 cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8166-4091-1

Seeing the diversity in Puerto Rico’s gay and lesbian communities in the United States

Exploring cultural expressions of Puerto Rican queer migration from the Caribbean to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes analyzes how artists have portrayed their lives and the discrimination they have faced in both Puerto Rico and the United States.

Highlighting cultural and political resistance within Puerto Rico’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender subcultures, La Fountain-Stokes pays close attention to differences of gender, historical moment, and generation, arguing that Puerto Rican queer identity changes over time and is experienced in very different ways. He traces an arc from 1960s Puerto Rico and the writings of Luis Rafael Sánchez to New York City in the 1970s and 1980s (Manuel Ramos Otero), Philadelphia and New Jersey in the 1980s and 1990s (Luz María Umpierre and Frances Negrón-Muntaner), and Chicago (Rose Troche) and San Francisco (Erika López) in the 1990s, culminating with a discussion of Arthur Avilés and Elizabeth Marrero’s recent dance-theater work in the Bronx.

Proposing a radical new conceptualization of Puerto Rican migration, this work reveals how sexuality has shaped and defined the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is assistant professor of Latina/o studies, American culture, and Romance languages and literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

272 pages | 12 b&w photos | 6 x 9 | 2009
Cultural Studies of the Americas Series, volume 23

Table of Contents

Introduction: On Queer Diasporas and Puerto Rican Migration Histories

1. The Persecution of Difference
2. Autobiographical Writing and Shifting Migrant Experience
3. Women’s Bodies, Lesbian Passions
4. Visual Happenings, Queer Imaginings
5. Nuyorico and the Utopias of the Everyday

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Publication History
Index

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Queer Ricans Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Table of Contents		$22.50 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-4092-8 $67.50 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-4091-1
Seeing the diversity in Puerto Rico’s gay and lesbian communities in the United States Exploring cultural expressions of Puerto Rican queer migration from the Caribbean to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes analyzes how artists have portrayed their lives and the discrimination they have faced in both Puerto Rico and the United States. Highlighting cultural and political resistance within Puerto Rico’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender subcultures, La Fountain-Stokes pays close attention to differences of gender, historical moment, and generation, arguing that Puerto Rican queer identity changes over time and is experienced in very different ways. He traces an arc from 1960s Puerto Rico and the writings of Luis Rafael Sánchez to New York City in the 1970s and 1980s (Manuel Ramos Otero), Philadelphia and New Jersey in the 1980s and 1990s (Luz María Umpierre and Frances Negrón-Muntaner), and Chicago (Rose Troche) and San Francisco (Erika López) in the 1990s, culminating with a discussion of Arthur Avilés and Elizabeth Marrero’s recent dance-theater work in the Bronx. Proposing a radical new conceptualization of Puerto Rican migration, this work reveals how sexuality has shaped and defined the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is assistant professor of Latina/o studies, American culture, and Romance languages and literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 272 pages \| 12 b&w photos \| 6 x 9 \| 2009 Cultural Studies of the Americas Series, volume 23 Table of Contents Introduction: On Queer Diasporas and Puerto Rican Migration Histories 1. The Persecution of Difference 2. Autobiographical Writing and Shifting Migrant Experience 3. Women’s Bodies, Lesbian Passions 4. Visual Happenings, Queer Imaginings 5. Nuyorico and the Utopias of the Everyday Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Publication History Index