Book Review: Gay Cuban Natn. By E Bejel. Universy of Chigo Prs, Chigo, Illois, 2001, 257 pp., $50.00 (hardback), $19.00 (paperback) | SprgerLk

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• BOOK REVIEW: GAY CUBAN NATN. BY E BEJEL. UNIVERSY OF CHIGO PRS, CHIGO, ILLOIS, 2001, 257 PP., $50.00 (HARDBACK), $19.00 (PAPERBACK)
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GAY CUBAN NATN

Gay Cuban Natn.

Wh Gay Cuban Natn, E Bejel looks at Cuba’s markedly homoerotic culture through wrgs about homosexualy, placg them the social and polil ntexts that led up to the Cuban Revolutn.

GAY CUBAN NATN 1ST EDN

By readg agast the gra of a wi variety of novels, short stori, tobgraphi, newspaper articl, and films, Bejel maps out a fascatg argument about the way which different attus toward power and natnalism stggle for an thorative stance on homosexual issu. Through close readgs of wrers such as José Martí, Alfonso Hernánz-Catá, Carlos Montenegro, José Lezama Lima, Leonardo Padura Fuent, and Realdo Arenas, whose heartbreakg tobgraphy, Before Night Falls, has enjoyed renewed populary, Gay Cuban Natn shows that the tegory of homosexualy is always lurkg, ghostlike, the shadows of natnalist disurse.

BOOK REVIEW: GAY CUBAN NATN. BY E BEJEL. UNIVERSY OF CHIGO PRS, CHIGO, ILLOIS, 2001, 257 PP., $50.00 (HARDBACK), $19.00 (PAPERBACK)

The book stak out Cuba’s sexual battlefield, and will challenge the homophobia of both Castro’s revolutnari and Cuban exil the Stat. Read Moreabout Gay Cuban Natn.

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