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Circuits of the sacred : a faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean
- Title
- Circuits of the sacred : a faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean / Carlos Ulises Decena.
- Author
- Decena, Carlos Ulises, 1974-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 191 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "In Circuits of the Sacred Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational Black Latinx Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit. Decena models what he calls a faggotology-the erotic in the divine as found in the disreputable and the excessive-as foundations to queer Black critical and expressive praxis of the future. Drawing on theoretical analysis, memoir, creative writing, and ethnography of Santería/Lucumí in Santo Domingo, Havana, and New Jersey, Decena moves between languages, locations, pronouns, and genres to map the itineraries of Blackness as a "circuit," a multipronged and multisensorial field. A feminist pilgrimage and extended conversation with the dead, Decena's study is a provocative work that transforms the academic monograph into a gathering of stories, theoretical innovation, and expressive praxis to channel voices, ancestors, deities, theorists, artists, and spirits from the vantage point of radical feminism and queer of color thinking"--
- Series Statement
- Writing matters!
- Alternative Title
- Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean
- Subject
- Decena, Carlos Ulises, 1974-
- Gay people, Black > Caribbean Area
- Black people > Caribbean Area > Religion
- Gay immigrants > Caribbean Area
- Queer theory
- Feminist theory
- Black people > Religion
- Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
- Gay immigrants
- Gay people, Black
- Black gay men
- Black LGBTQ+ people
- Theories
- Black people
- Caribbean Area > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
- Caribbean Area
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-183) and index.
- Contents
- Pensar Maricón (Faggotology) : an introduction -- Re-membered life : a composition for Egun -- Bridge Crónica : a triptych, with Elegguá -- Experiencing the evidence -- Loving stones : a transnational Patakí -- ¡Santo! Repurposed flesh and the suspension of the mirror in Santería initiation -- Indecent conocimientos : a suite Rasanblaj in funny keys -- Epístola al futuro/an epistle to the future.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-629
- ISBN
- 9781478019442
- 1478019441
- 9781478016809
- 1478016809
- 9781478024071 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022039177
- OCLC
- 1329420800
- Author
- Decena, Carlos Ulises, 1974- author.
- Title
- Circuits of the sacred : a faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean / Carlos Ulises Decena.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Writing matters!
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-183) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-629