By A. Cruz-Malavé
ISBN-10: 0230607020
ISBN-13: 9780230607026
ISBN-10: 1403977488
ISBN-13: 9781403977489
In the culture of the Latin American testimonio, this can be the tale of Juan Rivera, a.k.a. Juanito Xtravaganza, a Latino runaway early life who finally ends up homeless within the streets of recent York within the overdue 70s and turns into accomplice of the the world over recognized Nineteen Eighties Pop artist Keith Haring in the course of essentially the most frenetically effective years of his short lifestyles, as instructed to the writer and retold via him. A hybrid textual content - half testimonio, half linguistic and cultural research, and half artwork feedback - this is often additionally a background of latest York Latino neighborhoods in this interval of devastating disinvestment and gentrification, in addition to a private, heart-felt meditation at the paintings of listening and the moral limits of representing queer Latino lives.
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So we’d always end up fighting and breaking up, and when I break up, you know, yo siempre me curo . . with someone else, and then he’d come back in the picture all fresco, as if nothing had happened, as if we’d never broken up to find me with a new piece, and that would set off the war, become the bone of contention for the next six months. AC-M: He would set you up, I guess. JR: Yeah, and I remember this one time assuming we’d broken up, and I hadn’t seen him for a while, so I started messing around with this kid.
Die at home. And I knew it’d be maybe the last time I’d see her, so I decided to go pick her up. And I picked her up in the limousine I was driving then, ’cause I’d lost the Rockefeller Center job, carried her into the car, sat her down, and she was on morphine but looked good . . real good. And on the way home, C . . started going at it, “So who the fuck are you’re fuckin’? Who the fuck . ” And C . . was in the back and his mom was up in front, but you could still feel el hate que este chamaco le tenía.
And that fight lasted for like for an hour, ’cause they threw us out the bar and we kept fighting on into the street. ” And there was no way of getting this man off me, ’cause every time I’d kick him, he’d turn around and slap me, “Mira, you can’t leave me! ” And once I thought I’d finally separated from him—I had my own apartment, far away from him—and came home to find everything I owned shattered, pulled, or broke. My clothes were all cut to pieces, the mattress was stabbed with a knife, y la alfombra to’a dañá, and he wrote all kinda wicked biblical sayings on the wall .
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