Call My Son Ismael: Exiled Paternity and Father / Son Eroticism in Reinaldo Arenas and José Martí

benigno sánchez-eppler teaches Latin American Studies and Comparative literature at Brandeis University where he is also Manheimer Term Assistant Professor of University Studies. After his book on Ramó Jiménez in Cuba, and his doctoral dissertation on the editorial poetics of José Bergamín and Josee Lezama Lima, he is writing a book length manuscript on Reinaldo Arenas and the inclusion of homosexuality as a component in Cuba's nation-making narratives.