Questions

How is masculinity understood and represented in these works?

How is homosexuality represented in these works? Can homosexuals be revolutionaries?

Readings/Viewings

Arenas, Reinaldo, Before Night Falls, Viking (New York, 1993 [1992]).

Fresa y Chocolate, directed Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (1994).

Puig, Manuel, The Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976).

Santiago, Silviano, Stella Manhattan (1985).

Criticism

Mario, Santi Enrique, ‘Fresa y Chocolate: The Rhetoric of Cuban Reconciliation’, MLN, vol. 113:2 (1998).