Author Description

<p><b>International Latino Book Awards, Honorable Mention, Best Biography (English)<br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>American Educational Research Association, Division B:&#10;Curriculum Studies, Outstanding Book Award</b></p><p><br></p><p>Focusing on the didactic nature of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, this book demonstrates the Cuban writer&#8217;s influence as public pedagogue, mentor, and social activist whose teaching on resistance to normative ideologies resonates in societies past, present, and future.</p><p><br></p><p>Through a multidisciplinary approach bridging educational, historiographic, and literary perspectives,&#160;<i>The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas</i>&#160;illuminates how Arenas&#8217;s work remains a cutting-edge source of inspiration for today&#8217;s audiences, particularly LGBTQI readers. It shows how Arenas&#8217;s aesthetics contain powerful insights for exploring dissensus whether in the context of Cuba, broader Pan-American and Latinx-U.S. queer movements of social justice, or transnational citizenship politics.</p><p><br></p><p>Carefully dissecting Arenas&#8217;s themes against the backdrop of his political activity, this book presents the writer&#8217;s poetry, novels, and plays as a curriculum of dissidence that provides models for socially engaged intellectual activism.</p><p><br></p><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.</p>