Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean

In Circuits of the Sacred Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational black Latinx Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit. Decena models what he calls a faggotology-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.

Author: Carlos Ulises Decena
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 02/03/2023
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781478019442
ISBN10: 1478019441
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | Caribbean & Latin American Studies
- Social Science | Black Studies (Global)
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | Gay Studies

About the Author
Carlos Ulises Decena is Professor of Latino and Caribbean Studies and of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University and author of Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men, also published by Duke University Press.