false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179355760m/907751.jpg 907751 1 <div>With <i>Gay Cuban Nation</i>, Emilio Bejel looks at Cuba's markedly homoerotic culture through writings about homosexuality, placing them in the social and political contexts that led up to the Cuban Revolution. By reading against the grain of a wide variety of novels, short stories, autobiographies, newspaper articles, and films, Bejel maps out a fascinating argument about the way in which different attitudes toward power and nationalism struggle for an authoritative stance on homosexual issues. Through close readings of writers such as José Martí, Alfonso Hernández-Catá, Carlos Montenegro, José Lezama Lima, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, and Reinaldo Arenas, whose heartbreaking autobiography, <i>Before Night Falls</i>, has enjoyed renewed popularity, <i>Gay Cuban Nation</i> shows that the category of homosexuality is always lurking, ghostlike, in the shadows of nationalist discourse. The book stakes out Cuba's sexual battlefield, and will challenge the homophobia of both Castro's revolutionaries and Cuban exiles in the States.</div> 892890 1 9 2001 Gay Cuban Nation total:4|5:0|4:2|3:2|2:0|1:0| 4 14 6 0 4 0 false false Fri Oct 30 10:35:42 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 10:35:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 22 15:50:08 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 15:50:08 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jul 04 10:25:56 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 10:25:56 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jul 12 06:11:47 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 02:07:48 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 06:11:47 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Mar 02 06:24:43 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 06:24:43 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu May 31 17:11:44 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 17:11:44 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=907751