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- Title
Una entrevista etnográfica con el profesor Tomás Fernández Robaina sobre la diversidad sexual en Cuba.
- Authors
Pettway, Matthew
- Abstract
Research on my book Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection had taken me to Havana several times since 2004. But in the sweltering summer of 2011, something unforeseen transpired. Tomás Fernández Robaina—professor and researcher at the National Library José Martí—spoke with me about his life and career at length. Tomasito, as he is affectionately known the world over, had been my friend and mentor of many years but never the subject of my research. He discussed the intimacies of his private life, his personal triumphs and the vicissitudes of his career as a black gay intellectual in the years immediately following the Cuban Revolution. With an air of calm and contemplation he sat in his living room clearly in command of the narrative he had constructed. Tomasito reflected on state-sponsored discrimination against gay men and how he was nearly sentenced to labor camps (known as UMAP) that were designed to make a man of out him. This ethnographic interview in Spanish is a self-portrait of an innovator in gay Cuban studies who worked tirelessly to expand the field of black studies on the island.
- Subjects
CUBA; CUBAN literature; ROBAINA, Tomas Fernandez; BLACK gay people; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology)
- Publication
Cuban Studies, 2024, Vol 53, p261
- ISSN
0361-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cub.2024.a930648