El pájaro no pía: testimonio y homofobia de la Cuba castrista en 'Arturo, la estrella más brillante', de Reinaldo Arenas

  1. Endika Basáñez Barrio 1
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

Journal:
Estudios Hemisféricos y Polares

ISSN: 0718-9230

Year of publication: 2020

Volume: 11

Issue: 2

Pages: 73-88

Type: Article

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Abstract

Despite being exiled in New York, Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas did not abandon the use of narrative materials linked to the experience of the revolutionary dissidence. As a matter of fact, Arturo, la estrella más brillante, written in 1971 but published in exile in 1984, becomes a story where the Cuban converts into a text the homophobic struggle based on his colleague Nelson Rodríguez’s biography who was arrested in one of the homophobic camps sponsored by the socialist state. The article, thus, examines the testimonial value of the work as well as the anti-gay imagery inherited from European capitalism biopolicies

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