Title The queer Nuyorican : racialized sexualities and aesthetics in Loisaida / Karen Jaime

Published New York : New York University Press, [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 207 pages) : illustrations Series Performance and American cultures Performance and American cultures. Contents Introduction: Welcome to the Nuyorican -- Walking poetry in Loisaida -- This is the remix : Regie Cabico's Filipino shuffle -- Tens across the board : the glam slam at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe -- Black Cracker's "Chasing rainbows" : hip-hop minstrelsy, queer futurity, and trans multiplicity -- Conclusion: the open room Summary A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic One could easily overlook the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a small, unassuming performance venue on New York City's Lower East Side. Yet the space once hosted the likes of Victor Hernández Cruz, Allen Ginsberg, and Amiri Baraka and is widely credited as the homespace for the emergent nuyorican literary and aesthetic movement of the 1990s. Founded by a group of counterculturalist Puerto Rican immigrants and artists in the 1970s, the space slowly transformed the Puerto Rican ethnic and cultural associations of the epithet "Nuyorican," as the Cafe developed into a central hub for an artistic movement encompassing queer, trans, and diasporic performance.The Queer Nuyorican is the first queer genealogy and critical study of the historical, political, and cultural conditions under which the term "Nuyorican" shifted from a raced/ethnic identity marker to "nuyorican," an aesthetic practice. The nuyorican aesthetic recognizes and includes queer poets and performers of color whose writing and performance build upon the politics inherent in the Cafe's founding. Initially situated within the Cafe's physical space and countercultural discursive history, the nuyorican aesthetic extends beyond these gendered and ethnic boundaries, broadening the ethnic marker Nuyorican to include queer, trans, and diasporic performance modalities.Hip-hop studies, alongside critical race, queer, literary, and performance theories, are used to document the interventions made by queer and trans artists of color--Miguel Piñero, Regie Cabico, Glam Slam participants, and Ellison Glenn/Black Cracker--whose works demonstrate how the Nuyorican Poets Cafe has operated as a queer space since its founding. In focusing on artists who began their careers as spoken word artists and slam poets at the Cafe, The Queer Nuyorican examines queer modes of circulation that are tethered to the increasing visibility, commodification, and normalization of spoken word, slam poetry, and hip-hop theater in the United States and abroad Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Nuyorican Poets Cafe. SUBJECT Nuyorican Poets Cafe fast Subject Sexual minorities' writings, American -- History and criticism Performance poetry -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York Performance poets -- New York (State) -- New York American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism Minorities -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life PERFORMING ARTS / Storytelling. Intellectual life American poetry Minorities -- Intellectual life Performance poets Sexual minorities' writings, American LGBTQ+ people SUBJECT Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life Subject New York (State) -- New York -- Lower East Side New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Queer people Form Electronic book ISBN 9781479808274 147980827X 9781479808304 147980830X

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