Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean -- Carlos Ul

In <i>Circuits of the Sacred</i> Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational black Latinx Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit. Decena models what he calls a <i>faggotology</i>--the erotic in the divine as found in the disreputable and the excessive--as foundational to queer black critical and expressive praxis of the future. Drawing on theoretical analysis, memoir, creative writing, and ethnography of Santería/Lucumí in Santo Domingo, Havana, and New Jersey, Decena moves between languages, locations, pronouns, and genres to map the itineraries of blackness as a "circuit," a multipronged and multisensorial field. A feminist pilgrimage and extended conversation with the dead, Decena's study is a provocative work that transforms the academic monograph into a gathering of stories, theoretical innovation, and expressive praxis to channel voices, ancestors, deities, theorists, artists, and spirits from the vantage point of radical feminism and queer-of-color thinking.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Carlos Ulises Decena<br><b>Publisher:</b> Duke University Press<br><b>Published:</b> 03/10/2023<br><b>Pages:</b> 208<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.62lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781478019442