Irune del Rio Gabiola is associate professor of Spanish and director of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program at Butler University.

Irune del Rio Gabiola’s work analyzes the lesbian body as a site that re-envisions notions of un/becoming, queer family, space, and belonging. Drawing on Chela Sandoval’s ‘methodology of the oppressed,’ del Rio Gabiola carefully examines the work of Caribbean writers and artists and demonstrates how their particular representation of queer and transgendered bodies productively disrupts dominant notions of national identity and authority. This book brings together remarkable works from a diverse array of media (i.e. novel, graphic novel, hip hop, performance art) connected to their shared thematic attention to issues of gender, sexuality, and transnational mobility. del Rio Gabiola convincingly argues that these works, collectively, invite us to reimagine the power of the lesbian body.

• ContentsIntroduction: Dismantling Cultural Paradigms in search of Inclusivity and Revolutionary LovePuerto RicoChapter 1: Shame and Failure: Positive Narratives to Re/image Queer Identity in the Transnational Puerto Rican ContextChapter 2: A Queer Way of Family Life: Narratives of Time and Space in Mayra Santos-Febres’s Sirena Selena vestida de penaCubaChapter 3: Divas, Atrevidas y Entendidas; Cuban Hip Hop Group Krudas Cubensi ConQueering Love Across the Transnational SpaceChapter 4: Unbecoming Cuban-American: An Analysis of Cristy Road’s Graphic NarrativesThe Dominican RepublicChapter 5: Flexible Bodies in Cyberspace: Representations of Dominicanidad in the art of Raquel PaiewonskyChapter 6: The Lesbian Body as Home: Queering Dominican Women’s ExperiencesConclusion: Emancipatory Techniques in Contemporary Art in the Transnational Caribbean ContextReferencesAbout the Author

Irune del Rio Gabiola is associate professor of Spanish and director of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program at Butler University.

Irune del Rio Gabiola’s work analyzes the lesbian body as a site that re-envisions notions of un/becoming, queer family, space, and belonging. Drawing on Chela Sandoval’s ‘methodology of the oppressed,’ del Rio Gabiola carefully examines the work of Caribbean writers and artists and demonstrates how their particular representation of queer and transgendered bodies productively disrupts dominant notions of national identity and authority. This book brings together remarkable works from a diverse array of media (i.e. novel, graphic novel, hip hop, performance art) connected to their shared thematic attention to issues of gender, sexuality, and transnational mobility. del Rio Gabiola convincingly argues that these works, collectively, invite us to reimagine the power of the lesbian body.

• ContentsIntroduction: Dismantling Cultural Paradigms in search of Inclusivity and Revolutionary LovePuerto RicoChapter 1: Shame and Failure: Positive Narratives to Re/image Queer Identity in the Transnational Puerto Rican ContextChapter 2: A Queer Way of Family Life: Narratives of Time and Space in Mayra Santos-Febres’s Sirena Selena vestida de penaCubaChapter 3: Divas, Atrevidas y Entendidas; Cuban Hip Hop Group Krudas Cubensi ConQueering Love Across the Transnational SpaceChapter 4: Unbecoming Cuban-American: An Analysis of Cristy Road’s Graphic NarrativesThe Dominican RepublicChapter 5: Flexible Bodies in Cyberspace: Representations of Dominicanidad in the art of Raquel PaiewonskyChapter 6: The Lesbian Body as Home: Queering Dominican Women’s ExperiencesConclusion: Emancipatory Techniques in Contemporary Art in the Transnational Caribbean ContextReferencesAbout the Author

Irune del Rio Gabiola is associate professor of Spanish and director of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program at Butler University.

Irune del Rio Gabiola’s work analyzes the lesbian body as a site that re-envisions notions of un/becoming, queer family, space, and belonging. Drawing on Chela Sandoval’s ‘methodology of the oppressed,’ del Rio Gabiola carefully examines the work of Caribbean writers and artists and demonstrates how their particular representation of queer and transgendered bodies productively disrupts dominant notions of national identity and authority. This book brings together remarkable works from a diverse array of media (i.e. novel, graphic novel, hip hop, performance art) connected to their shared thematic attention to issues of gender, sexuality, and transnational mobility. del Rio Gabiola convincingly argues that these works, collectively, invite us to reimagine the power of the lesbian body.

• ContentsIntroduction: Dismantling Cultural Paradigms in search of Inclusivity and Revolutionary LovePuerto RicoChapter 1: Shame and Failure: Positive Narratives to Re/image Queer Identity in the Transnational Puerto Rican ContextChapter 2: A Queer Way of Family Life: Narratives of Time and Space in Mayra Santos-Febres’s Sirena Selena vestida de penaCubaChapter 3: Divas, Atrevidas y Entendidas; Cuban Hip Hop Group Krudas Cubensi ConQueering Love Across the Transnational SpaceChapter 4: Unbecoming Cuban-American: An Analysis of Cristy Road’s Graphic NarrativesThe Dominican RepublicChapter 5: Flexible Bodies in Cyberspace: Representations of Dominicanidad in the art of Raquel PaiewonskyChapter 6: The Lesbian Body as Home: Queering Dominican Women’s ExperiencesConclusion: Emancipatory Techniques in Contemporary Art in the Transnational Caribbean ContextReferencesAbout the Author