Health Care Operations Management: A Systems Perspective

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With
, Emilio Bejel looks at Cuba’s markedly homoerotic culture through writings about homosexuality, placing them in the social and political contexts that led up to the Cuban Revolution. By reading against the grain of a wide variety of novels, short stories, autobiographies, newspaper articles, and films, Bejel maps out a fascinating argument about the way in which different attitudes toward power and nationalism struggle for an authoritative stance on homosexual issues. Through close readings of writers such as Jos谷 Mart赤, Alfonso Hern芍ndez-Cat芍, Carlos Montenegro, Jos谷 Lezama Lima, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, and Reinaldo Arenas, whose heartbreaking autobiography,
, has enjoyed renewed popularity,
shows that the category of homosexuality is always lurking, ghostlike, in the shadows of nationalist discourse. The book stakes out Cuba’s sexual battlefield, and will challenge the homophobia of both Castro’s revolutionaries and Cuban exiles in the States.