Blacktino Queer Performance
E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
Homosociality and Its Discontents: Puerto Rican Masculinities in Javier Cardona’s Ah Mén
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Published:June 2016
Celiany Rivera-Velázquez, Beliza Torres Narváez, 2016. "Homosociality and Its Discontents: Puerto Rican Masculinities in Javier Cardona’s Ah Mén", Blacktino Queer Performance, E. Patrick Johnson, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera
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In this chapter, Celiany Rivera-Velázquez and Beliza Torres Narváez argue that Javier Cardona’s Ah mén parodies and critiques Caribbean and Latin American moralistic discourses that pathologize men who do not conform to normative gender expectations. They focus on particular scenes that animate the social enforcement of normative masculinities as well as the harmful consequences of such enforcement. They ultimately observe that, within the context of Ahmén, dance functions as a site of queer potentiality and thus opens up possibilities for healthier articulations of masculinity.
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