Imagining LatinX Intimacies

Imagining Latinx Intimacies addresses the ways that artists and writers resist the social forces of colonialism, displacement, and oppression through crafting incisive and inspiring responses to the problems that queer Latinx peoples encounter in both daily lives and representation such as art, film, poetry, popular culture, and stories. Instead of keeping quiet, queer Latinx artists and writers have spoken up as a way of challenging stereotypes, prejudice, and violence occurring in communities ranging from Puerto Rico to sites within the mainland United States as well as transnational flows of migration. Such migrations are explored in several ways including the movement of queer people from Chile to the United States. To address these matters, artistic thinkers such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, and Rane Arroyo have challenged such socio-political problems by imagining intimate social and intellectual spaces that resist the status quo like homophobic norms, laws, and policies that hurt families and communities. Building on the intellectual thought of researchers such as Jorge Duany, Adriana de Souza e Silva, and José Esteban Muñoz, this book explains how the imagined spaces of Latinx LGBTQ peoples are blueprints for addressing our tumultuous present and creating a better future.

Edward A. Chamberlain is Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma, USA

Part I: Close to Home: Rescripting Domestic Spaces / Introduction: Stories of Queer Latinx Intimacies and Spatial Experiences / Chapter 1 - Reimagining the Family Home: The Queering of Domesticity in Puerto Rican Storytelling / Chapter 2 - Enhancing Schools: Creating Social Alliances and Queer Spaces in the Young Adult Fiction of González and Sánchez / Part II: Far from Home: Alternative and Imaginary Spaces / Chapter 3 - Connecting and Performing Online: Interactive Experiences in Two Multimedia Texts by Queer Puerto Rican Artists / Chapter 4 - Mapping Poetic Spaces: Subversive Intimacies of Humans and Nonhumans in the Scenes of Anzaldúa and Arroyo / Chapter 5 - Navigating Spectacular Spaces: Regarding Bodies and Chilean American Lives in Reyes's Madre and I: A Memoir of Our Immigrant Lives / Afterword - Looking to the Future: Remembering Spatial Creativity and Confronting Violence Across Queer Contexts / Appendix - Three Brief Resource Lists for Latinx and LGBTQ+ Communities