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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 âthe erotic in the divine as found in the disreputable and the excessiveâas foundational to queer black critical and expressive praxis of the future. Drawing on theoretical analysis, memoir, creative writing, and ethnography of SanterĂa/LucumĂ 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Gratitudes
- Part 0. OrĂgenes (Origins)
- Part I. Caminos
- Part II. Dos Puentes, TrĂĄnsitos
- Part III. Trances
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index