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Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails

Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails

Cruz-Malavé, A.

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Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures

Biographies GeneralGeneral Gender StudiesGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1403977488
ISBN13: 9781403977489
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 2 2007
Pages: 227
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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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