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Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle M. Stout arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized emergence of gay tolerance in Cuba but discovered that the sex trade was dominating everyday discussions among gays, lesbians, and travestis. Largely eradicated after the Revolution, sex work, including same-sex prostitution, exploded in Havana when the island was opened to foreign tourism in the early 1990s. The booming sex trade led to unprecedented encounters between Cuban gays and lesbians, and straight male sex workers and foreign tourists. As many gay Cuban men in their thirties and forties abandoned relationships with other gay men in favor of intimacies with straight male sex workers, these bonds complicated ideas about "true love" for queer Cubans at large. From openly homophobic hustlers having sex with urban gays for room and board, to lesbians disparaging sex workers but initiating relationships with foreign men for money, to gay tourists espousing communist rhetoric while handing out Calvin Klein bikini briefs, the shifting economic terrain raised fundamental questions about the boundaries between labor and love in late-socialist Cuba.

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Sociologie, société et politique

Cultural studies

Indigenous peoples

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	02 avril 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822376590
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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After Love

After LoveQueer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba

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Duke University Press Durham and London 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stout, Noelle M., – After love : queer intimacy and erotic economies in post-soviet Cuba / Noelle M. Stout. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index.  ---- (cloth : alk. paper)  ---- (pbk. : alk. paper) . Gays— Cuba. . Homosexuality— Cuba— History— th century. . Gender identity— Cuba. . Title. ..  .’— dc 

Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the Humanities Initiative Grants-in-Aid, New York University, which provided funds toward the publication of this book.

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Acknowledgments

: Can’t Be Bought or Sold? LOVE AND INTIMACY IN THE AFTERMATH OF CRISIS

 : “Tolerated, Not Accepted” THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF QUEER CRITIQUES

 : “A Normal Fag with a Job” THE COMPLICATED DESIRES OF URBAN GAYS

 : “Tell Me You Love Me” URBAN GAY MEN NEGOTIATE COMMODIFIED SEX

 : “Smarter Than You Think” SEX, DESIRE, AND LABOR AMONG HUSTLERS

 : “Get Oﬀ the Bus” SEX TOURISM, PATRONAGE, AND QUEER COMMODITIES

: Love in Crisis THE POLITICS OF INTIMACY AND SOLIDARITY

Notes

References

Index

Acknowledgments

This book would not have been possible without the generosity and kind-heartedness of the friends, collaborators, and contacts I grew to know during my time in Havana. They shared their lives and their stories with me, introduced me to their families and friends, fed me, took care of me when I was sick, and showed me the power of lasting friendship. Cuban scholars generously oﬀered their time and insights, in particular Alberto Roque Guerra, Jorge Pérez at the Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute, Victor Fowler at the International Film School, and ﬁlm profes-sor Gustavo Arcos. For endless conversations about all things queer and historical in Cuba, I am especially thankful to my colleague, friend, and partner in crime, historian Abel Sierra Madero. At Harvard University, I would like to thank Mary Steedly who taught me, in the classroom and beyond, the power of ethnographic storytelling. Jorge Domínguez taught me nearly everything I knew about Cuba before I landed in Havana. His disciplined and thoughtful approach to Cuban studies is something to which I continually aspire. Lucien Taylor believed in my abilities when I had little to show for myself and taught me to see the world through a new and more fascinating lens. His encouragement, behind the camera and in life, has been an enduring gift. A number of indi-viduals also provided their insights during various stages of my research: Arachu Castro, Byron Good, Susan Eckstein, Brad Epps, Michael Herzfeld, J. Lorand Matory, Anna Tsing, Kay Warren, and Kath Weston. Graduate students at Harvard engaged in ongoing discussions that contributed to

this project especially: Angela Garcia, Joon Michael Choi, Akin Hubbard, Katrina Moore, Tim Smith, Michelle Tisdel, and Peter Benson (who encour-aged me to pursue this research one fateful night over a beer, despite my protests that studying Cuba was a “leftist cliché”). The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard generously dealt with the endless paper trail that comes with travel to Cuba. In particular, Lorena Bar-beria and Yadira Rivera oﬀered me guidance and critical contacts in Cuba. My former advisors from Stanford University, Sylvia Yanagisako and Jane Collier, continued to oﬀer invaluable support. To this day, I continue to draw on the lessons—both personal and intellectual—that they have taught me. I was fortunate to work on this book during my ﬁrst years in the De-partment of Anthropology at New York University. For their tireless mentorship, friendship, and feedback I am grateful to Faye Ginsburg and Emily Martin. Cheryl Furjanic was a friend, co-teacher, and master story-teller who pushed me to keep my work relevant. Fred Myers oﬀered daily advice and reassurance. The “junior league” writing group, Sonia Das, Tejaswini Ganti, Haidy Geismer, Nathalie Peutz, and Anne Rademacher, gave me critical feedback and commiseration. I am also grateful to the following individuals for comments on my research and writing: Ada Ferrar, Nadine Fernandez, Bruce Grant, Rayna Rapp, Renato Rosaldo, Michael Ralph, and Rafael Sánchez. A small but mighty nation of Natives at , especially Max Liborion, Rick Chavolla, Anna Ortega Chavolla, and Desiree Barron, helped me to feel more at home and never gave me a hard time when I had to skip Fry Bread Fridays to write. Funding for my work was generously provided by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, the Harvard Film Study Center, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, the Department of Anthropology at   , the Center for Caribbean and Latin American Studies at , and assistance for publi-cation costs was provided by the Humanities Initiative at . Editors and reviewers helped me strengthen my analysis and polish my writing in substantial ways. Susan Murko oﬀered unrivaled editorial assistance in the ﬁnal months of revisions. At Duke University Press, my editor Ken Wissoker oﬀered patience and advice, as well as the reassuring sense that publication was a happy inevitability. I am especially thankful to Deborah Thomas and the three anonymous reviewers who strength-ened the book with their careful attention and comments.

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I am forever indebted to Alphonso Morgan who ﬁrst introduced me to gay enclaves in Havana and since that night has traveled alongside me as a collaborator and brother. In countless ways, this book would not have been possible without him. I am also grateful to Dominique Fontenette who took a hiatus from medical school to suﬀer through nine months of blackouts by my side during ﬁeldwork, and to friends who journeyed with me in Cuba: Farren Briggs, Sandra Dong, Sherri Taylor, and Omar Washington. My deepest gratitude goes to my family. My mom, Dolores Gray, whose love and sense of adventure provided the conﬁdence needed to undertake this book. I am thankful for the support of my aunts Michelle Comeau and Linda Kunsemiller and my dad, Ervin Stout, who taught me that sometimes being lucky is more important than being good. I am es-pecially grateful to Matthew Lehman for eight years of unconditional love, support, and daily encouragement. His tireless proofreading was matched only by his willingness to pack and move my mountain of books from island to island and from state to state. He’s shown me the profound beneﬁts of having someone permanently on my team. And ﬁnally, to Da-mian who bravely, and often against his will, shared his infancy with this manuscript. I am forever grateful that he weathered my divided attention during his early years. I dedicate this book to him with the hope that by the time he’s old enough to understand it, the concept of sexual inequal-ity will be forgotten history.

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