Gender, bodies and desires in the ruins of The King of Havana
This article proposes a reading of The King of Havana (1999), a novel by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, keeping in mind the connection between the text, the political project of the New Man, implemented by the Socialist Government of Fidel Castro, and the economic crisis in Cuba, in the 1990s, during the Spe...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) |
| Repository: | Cadernos Pagu (Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8678995 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/cadpagu/article/view/8678995 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Cuba Special period Gender relations Performativity Período especial Relações de gênero Performatividade |
| Summary: | This article proposes a reading of The King of Havana (1999), a novel by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, keeping in mind the connection between the text, the political project of the New Man, implemented by the Socialist Government of Fidel Castro, and the economic crisis in Cuba, in the 1990s, during the Special Period in Times of Peace. In addition to the fractures of the Cuban economic and social project, the narrative explores processes of production of bodies and the instability of the categories sex, gender and desire in order to contest the hegemonic heterosexual matrix (Butler, 2003). |
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