Reviews
This wonderful work unravels the complex and messy strands of emergences, disappearances, visibilities, and erasures of the loca, the gender, and sexually transgressive Cuban male homosexual figure who arrived in America via the Mariel boatlift. Susana Peña carefully and sensitively excavates through layers of historical and cultural abjection in order to persuasively demonstrate how the loca's stigmatized exilic trajectory is intimately connected to the advent of a Cuban American gay culture in Miami. --Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, This wonderful work unravels the complex and messy strands of emergences, disappearances, visibilities, and erasures of the loca, the gender, and sexually transgressive Cuban male homosexual figure who arrived in America via the Mariel boatlift. Susana Pea carefully and sensitively excavates through layers of historical and cultural abjection in order to persuasively demonstrate how the loca's stigmatized exilic trajectory is intimately connected to the advent of a Cuban American gay culture in Miami. --Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
