Finalist for The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in
Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre
Research. Silver Medal Winner of The Victor Villasenor Best Latino
Focused Non-Fiction Book Award, given by the International Latino
Book Awards. Honorable Mention for the Best LGBTQ+ Themed Book,
given by the International Latino Book Awards. 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 Hernandez 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 Pinero, 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.
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