Primary texts
• Conducta impropia (dir.Néstor Almendros y Orlando Jiménez-Leal, 1984) (film/documentary)
• Senel Paz, El lobo, el bosque y el hombre nuevo, (México City: Era, 1991) (short story).
• Fresa y chocolate (dir.Tomás Gutiérrez AleayJuan Carlos Tabío, 1993)
• Zoé Valdés, La nada cotidiana.(Barcelona: Emecé, 1995)
• Cosas que dejé en la Habana (dir. GutieŕrezAragoń, Manuel; Herrero, Gerardo; Paz, Senel, 2001)
Reading list
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Behar, Sonia. 2009. La caída del hombre nuevo: narrativa cubana del período especial, New York: Peter Lang.
Bejel, Emilio. “Antes que anochezca: autobiografía de un disidente cubano homosexual” Hispamérica, 25, N. 74 (Aug., 1996), pp. 29-45. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20539913.pdf
Bejel, Emilio. 2001. Gay Cuban Nation.Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press.
Braham, Persephone.2004. “Masking, Unmasking, and the Return to Signification”. Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp.39-64.
Butler, Judith. 1988. “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory”. Theatre Journal, Vol. 40, N. 4, pp. 519-531.
Candía Cáceres, Alexis. 2007. “Trilogía sucia de La Habana: Descarnado viaje por el anteparaíso” Revista Iberoamericana, Vol. LXXIII, Núm. 218, enero-marzo 2007, 51-67
Castro, Fidel. 1961. Palabras a los intelectuales, www.min.cult.cu/historia/palabras.doc.
Castro, Fidel. 1971. Discurso pronunciado en la clausura del Primer Congreso Nacionalde Educación y Cultura.http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1962/esp/f180862e.html.
Davies, Catherine. 1997. A Place in the Sun? Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Cuba, London: Zed Books Ltd.
De Ferrari, Guillermina. 2003. “AestheticsunderSiege: DirtyRealism and Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's 'Trilogía sucia de La Habana'”. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Vol. 7, p. 23-43.
De Ferrari, Guillermina. 2007. “Embargoed Masculinities: Loyalty, Friendship and the Role of the Intellectual in the PostSoviet Cuban Novel”. Latin American Literary Review, Vol. 35, No. 69 (Jan. - Jun., 2007), pp. 82-103. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20119989
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Fernández, Manuel. 2002. "La figura del mimo en Máscaras de Leonardo Padura Fuentes". https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo;jsessionid=F6AA4F4562FA0B260D15A694C960CF45.dialnet01?codigo=267235
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Fornet, Jorge, 2003. “La Narrativa Cubana entre la Utopía y el Desencanto”. Hispamérica: Revista de literatura, N. 95, pp. 3-20.
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Foster, David William. 2003. Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema. Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. 50-60 Conductaimpropria and pp. 147-163 Fresa y Chocolate.
González, Eduardo. 2006. Cuba and the Tempest: Literature and Cinema in the Time of Diaspora. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Guevara,Ernesto. 1965. “Man and Socialism”(El socialismo y el hombre en Cuba). In The Cuban Reader. Durham & London: Duke University Press, pp.370-374.
Hall, Stuart. 1990. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora”. In Community, Culture, Difference, edited by Jonathan Rutherford. London: Lawrence &Wishart, pp. 223-237.
Hall, Stuart, “Who needs identity?” in Hall, Stuart and Paul Du Gay (Eds.). 1996.Questions of Cultural Identity.London: Sage.
Hamilton, Carrie. 2012. Sexual revolutions in Cuba: passion, politics, and memory. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Kapcia, Antoni. 2000. Cuba: Island of Dreams. Oxford: Berg.
Kirk, John M. and Leonardo Padura Fuentes. 2001. Culture and the Cuban Revolution, Conversations in Havana. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Kroll, Juli. 2014. “The kiss of the the marble statue: Existentialism and Cuba’s ‘Special Period’ in La nada cotidiana by Zoé Valdés’. Hispanofilía ,172, pp. 187-205.
Lahr-Vivaz, Elena. 2010. “TimelessRhetoric, SpecialCircumstances: Sex and Symbol in "La nada cotidiana"”. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Invierno 2010), pp. 303-321
Lievesley, Geraldine. 2004. The Cuban Revolution: past, present, and future perspectives / Palgrave Macmillan.
Martínez Fernández, Luis. 2014.Revolutionary Cuba: a history. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.
McMahon, Wendy-Jayne. 2012, Dislocated identities: exile and the self as (m)other in the writing of Reinaldo Arenas.Peter Lang.
Montoya, Óscar E. 2012 “Leonardo Padura Fuentes: las máscaras estéticas Y sexuales de la Revolución”. HispanicReview, Vol. 80, No. 1 (WINTER 2012), pp. 107-125. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41472648?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Oakley, Helen. 2012. “Challenging the Cuban Revolutionary Crime Novel: Leonardo Padura Fuentes” in From Revolution to Migration: A Study of Contemporary Cuban and Cuban-American Crime Fiction. Oxford; New York: Peter Lang, pp. 31-74.
Ocasio Rafael, 2002. “Gays and the Cuban Revolution: The Case of Reinaldo Arenas”. Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 29, No. 2, Gender, Sexuality, and Same-Sex Desire in Latin America (Mar., 2002), pp. 78-98. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3185128?&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Ortiz, Fernando. 28/11/1939. “Los factores humanos de la cubanidad”, paperpresented at a conference at HavanaUniversity. Published in RevistaBimestre. Cubana. Vol. XLV, N.2, (March-April 1940), pp. 161-186. http://www.habanaelegante.com/Panoptico/Panoptico_Ortiz.html
Paz, Senel. 1995. Strawberry & chocolate; introduction, translations & interview by Peter Bush. Bloomsbury.
Pérez-Firmat,Gustavo. 1997. "A Willingness of the Heart: Cubanidad, Cubaneo, Cubanía”. Keynote Speech at Second Annual South Florida Symposium on Cuba, Cuban Studies Association; also in Cuban Studies Association Occasional Papers, paper 8, Vol. 2, N. 7. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=csa
Pérez-Firmat, Gustavo. 1989. The Cuban Condition: Translation and Identity in Modern Cuban Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wilkinson, Stephen, 1999. “Homosexuality and the Repression of Intellectuals in Fresa y chocolate andMáscaras”. Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 18, N. 1, pp. 17-33. http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3339472.pdf
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