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

By Carlos Ulises Decena

Book Overview

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 Santer a/Lucum 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478019441
• ISBN13: 9781478019442
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"