Queer Latino testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza [electronic resource] : hard tails / Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé
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 m...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | New directions in Latino American cultures.
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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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 227 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230607026 0230607020 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |