... years to visit this tropical island at long last. I had attempted to travel with a squadron of enthusiastic radicals on the fifth Vencere- mos Brigade in 1975 to show solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, but I was bounced for allegedly being “insensitive to Third...

...Michael Hames-García ¡Oye Loca! From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami . Peña Susana . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2013 . xxx + 224 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 BOOKS IN BRIEF 447 Emerging...

... not only (trans)national subjects but the very par- ticulars of their desires? One might read Achy Obejas’s 1996 novel Memory Mambo as a prolonged meditation on these questions, as it tracks its heroine—Cuban Amer- ican lesbian Juani Casas—in her attempt to understand...

... as they partake of a seductive dance, a transaction between Cubans and damned Spanish and other European tourists who arrive with their tainted money, and you looking at it all. A friend of Josué tries to go into a dollar-only cafeteria full of foreign johns, only to be stopped at the door...

...” (14). Stout’s focus on anachronistic partnering among white Cubans and white tourists from the global north captures the differences between the economies of desire navigated by black Cubans and white Cubans. Additionally, the book provides a long-­awaited analysis of the marginality...

... of Jafari S. Allen’s latest ethnographic study, ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-­Making in Cuba, is inspired by a Cuban revolutionary slogan mean- ing “We shall overcome!” Yet as the ambivalence of Allen’s punctuation suggests, the Revolution’s promise of socioeconomic equality for all remains...

... Overcome? Lauren J. Gantz ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-­Making in Cuba Jafari S. Allen Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. xii + 241 pp. The title of Jafari S. Allen’s latest ethnographic study, ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-­Making in Cuba, is inspired by a Cuban...

... Overcome? Lauren J. Gantz ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-­Making in Cuba Jafari S. Allen Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. xii + 241 pp. The title of Jafari S. Allen’s latest ethnographic study, ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-­Making in Cuba, is inspired by a Cuban...

... Overcome? Lauren J. Gantz ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-­Making in Cuba Jafari S. Allen Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. xii + 241 pp. The title of Jafari S. Allen’s latest ethnographic study, ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-­Making in Cuba, is inspired by a Cuban...

...Zachary Lamm Cultural Erotics in Cuban America Ricardo L. Ortíz Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press , 2006 . xix + 337 pp . Duke University Press 2008 Zachary Lamm is a graduate student in the English department at Loyola University, Chicago. Books in Brief...

..., San Diego. Books in Brief Queering Exilic Experience Zachary Lamm Cultural Erotics in Cuban America Ricardo L. Ortíz Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xix + 337 pp. To exist as queer is, one might argue, to exist in a form of exile: from sexual nor- mativity; from...

.... Roden is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Books in Brief Queering Exilic Experience Zachary Lamm Cultural Erotics in Cuban America Ricardo L. Ortíz Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xix + 337 pp. To exist as queer is, one might argue...

..., and maître de langue at Paris VII, Denis Diderot. Books in Brief Queering Exilic Experience Zachary Lamm Cultural Erotics in Cuban America Ricardo L. Ortíz Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xix + 337 pp. To exist as queer is, one might argue, to exist in a form of exile...

... studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Books in Brief Queering Exilic Experience Zachary Lamm Cultural Erotics in Cuban America Ricardo L. Ortíz Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xix + 337 pp. To exist as queer is, one might argue, to exist in a form...

... Studies, at Bowdoin College. Books in Brief Queering Exilic Experience Zachary Lamm Cultural Erotics in Cuban America Ricardo L. Ortíz Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xix + 337 pp. To exist as queer is, one might argue, to exist in a form of exile: from sexual nor...

... Queering Exilic Experience Zachary Lamm Cultural Erotics in Cuban America Ricardo L. Ortíz Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xix + 337 pp. To exist as queer is, one might argue, to exist in a form of exile: from sexual nor- mativity; from cultural narratives; from...

... College and executive director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Books in Brief Queering Exilic Experience Zachary Lamm Cultural Erotics in Cuban America Ricardo L. Ortíz Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xix + 337 pp. To exist...

... Experience Zachary Lamm Cultural Erotics in Cuban America Ricardo L. Ortíz Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xix + 337 pp. To exist as queer is, one might argue, to exist in a form of exile: from sexual nor- mativity; from cultural narratives; from the national corpus. Might...

... of California, Berkeley. Books in Brief Queering Exilic Experience Zachary Lamm Cultural Erotics in Cuban America Ricardo L. Ortíz Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xix + 337 pp. To exist as queer is, one might argue, to exist in a form of exile: from sexual nor- mativity...