Queer Latino testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza :
General Material Designation
[Book]
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hard tails /
First Statement of Responsibility
Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiii, 227 p. :
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ill. ;
Dimensions
21 cm
SERIES
Series Title
New directions in Latino American cultures
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-213) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Listening speaks (I) : an introduction -- The life and times of Juanito Xtravaganza / as told by Juan Rivera and retold by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé. Fly, robin, fly. Just telling stories--. One of these days! Paradise. "I'm Juanito Xtravaganza" : an epilogue -- A radiated radiant baby : Keith Haring and an aesthetics of identification. Beginning with the end. Art is life. An energy called hip-hop. Clones go home! A radiated radiant baby. A love interlude : the paradise garage. Pop and the limits of universalism : Shibuya, Japan -- Listening speaks (II) : testimonio, queer Latino representation, and shame -- A reticent genre. Foreign in a domestic sense. La vida, or, The return of the primitive. "But these P.R.s are different--they multiply?" That senseless sense of shame. Identification and queer shame : the cautionary tale of Mario Montez. Art and engagement -- What's in a name. The places. The people. The terms -- Spanglish glosses. Fly, robin, fly. Just telling stories-- One of these days! Paradise. "I'm Juanito Xtravanga" : an epilogue
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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 1970s and becomes partner of the intentionally famous 1980s Pop artist Keith Haring, 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-left meditation on the art of listening and the ethical limits of representing queer Latino lives."--BOOK JACKET