A Gay Cuban Activist in Exile: Reinaldo Arenas

by Rafael Ocasio

Between Reinaldo Arenas's arrival in the United States in 1980 and his suicide a decade later, the Cuban exile produced his most mature writing, a prolific body of work that Rafael Ocasio places at the intersection of twentieth-century sexual and cultural politics. Examining Arenas's fiction, critical articles, the epic poem El Central, and hundreds of letters to friends and critics, Ocasio explores the writer's bold criticism of the Castro...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813030897
• ISBN13: 9780813030890
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"