Carlos Ulises Decena

Decena models what he calls a —the erotic in the divine as found in the disreputable and the excessive—as foundational to queer black critical and expressive praxis of the future.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...

A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean Book Pages: 208 Illustrations: Release Date: Subjects Gender and Sexuality > LGBTQ Studies, Religious Studies, African American Studies and Black Diaspora In Circuits of the Sacred Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational black Latinx Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit.

Series Detail Sort by Series editor(s): Saidiya Hartman, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Monica Huerta, Erica Rand, Kathleen Stewart, Jerry Zee Overview: Writing Matters! seeks to expand the tone, reach, claims, and attitudes of conceptual critical writing. It is grounded in queer, women of color, autotheory, feminist, and fictocritical traditions and poetics that lead with voice, texture, density, rhythm, and atmosphere.