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Queer Latino testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza : hard tails
Author
Title
Queer Latino testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza : hard tails / Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé.
ISBN
9780230607026
0230607020
9781403977489
140397747X
1403977488
9781403977472
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource. (xiii, 227 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
In the tradition of the Latin American testimonio, this is the story of Juan Rivera, a.k.a. Juanito Xtravaganza, a Latino runaway youth who ends up homeless in the streets of New York in the late 70s and becomes partner of the internationally famous 1980s Pop artist Keith Haring during some of the most frenetically productive years of his brief life, as told to the author and retold by him. A hybrid text--part testimonio, part linguistic and cultural analysis, and part art criticism--this is also a history of New York Latino neighborhoods during this period of devastating disinvestment and gentrification, as well as a personal, heart-felt meditation on the art of listening and the ethical limits of representing queer Latino lives.
Variant and related titles
Palgrave social & cultural studies collection 2007.
Other formats
Print version: Cruz, Arnaldo. Queer Latino testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2018
Series
New directions in Latino American cultures
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.
Contents
Listening speaks (I) : an introduction
The life and times of Juanito Xtravaganza / as told by Juan Rivera and retold by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé. Fly, robin, fly. Just telling stories
. One of these days! Paradise. "I'm Juanito Xtravaganza" : an epilogue
A radiated radiant baby : Keith Haring and an aesthetics of identification. Beginning with the end. Art is life. An energy called hip-hop. Clones go home! A radiated radiant baby. A love interlude : the paradise garage. Pop and the limits of universalism : Shibuya, Japan
Listening speaks (II) : testimonio, queer Latino representation, and shame
A reticent genre. Foreign in a domestic sense. La vida, or, The return of the primitive. "But these P.R.s are different
they multiply?" That senseless sense of shame. Identification and queer shame : the cautionary tale of Mario Montez. Art and engagement
What's in a name. The places. The people. The terms
Spanglish glosses. Fly, robin, fly. Just telling stories
One of these days! Paradise. "I'm Juanito Xtravanga" : an epilogue.
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Biography.
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