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La Creación De La Comunidad Gay En La Escritura De Raúl Rodríguez Cetina, Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio
La Creación De La Comunidad Gay En La Escritura De Raúl Rodríguez Cetina, Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio
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The King's Toilet: Cruising Literary History In Reinaldo Arenas' Before Night Falls, LáZaro Lima
The King's Toilet: Cruising Literary History In Reinaldo Arenas' Before Night Falls, LáZaro Lima
Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications
In this article I will read Before Night Falls as Arenas' queer version of Cuban literary history and his relation to it. Against the commonplace assertions that demand that Before Night Falls be primarily understood, if not exclusively, as an invective against Fidel Castro or, in the other extreme, as an ars moriendi and AIDS testimonial from a sexual dissident, I wish to revisit this text on the twentieth anniversary of its publication to underscore a missed reading that can help situate how Arenas, one of the most transgressive writers theorized in this collection as the Generation of '72, might …