Uñas Pintadas De Azul/Blue Fingernails
Edition: Bilingual edition
Publisher: Bilingual Review Press.
Published: March 30, 2009
Language: spa
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781931010337
Subjects: Short Stories (single author); Fiction; Fiction - General; Spanish: Adult Fiction; Gay
First sentence: Estos cuentos (excepto uno que otro) se escribieron en español más o menos entre 1994 y 2001, en Nueva York y Nueva Jersey, y han sufrido desde entonces una multitud de variaciones y encarnaciones; creo que "Tom's Restaurant" fue el único que escribí originalmente en inglés.
Description: These 14 short stories represent a Latin/o American poetic journey, a sensory pilgrimage through the pains and pleasures of diasporic, cosmopolitan gay and lesbian Puerto Rican identities in a postmodern, ever-shifting world. The tales touch on urban experiences throughout the Americas, at times incorporating elements of science fiction, vampires, detectives, and fantasy, but mostly focusing on the difficulties of mad, passionate love and its inevitable demise. Oscillating between humor and sadness, the stories are meant for readers who are not afraid of controversial ideas or taboo topics like sadomasochism, transvestism, prostitution, and pornography. Experimental and metaliterary, with intertextual allusions to the work of other gay writers such as Manuel Ramos Otero, Manuel Puig, and David Wojnarowicz, Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails  is an important contribution to queer Latino/a and Puerto Rican letters.   Bilingual edition.
Table of contents: pagenum: vii
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title: Nota del autor: La historia de las historias; pagenum: 2
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title: Mi nombre, masa multitudinaria; pagenum: 3
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title: My Name, Multitudinous Mass; pagenum: 14
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title: Uñas pintadas de azul; pagenum: 15
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title: Blue Fingernails; pagenum: 28
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title: Intergalactica de amor; pagenum: 29
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title: Love Is Intergalactic; pagenum: 52
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title: Un gato negro llamado Malicia; pagenum: 53
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title: A Black Cat Called Malicia; pagenum: 78
title: radio in forma; pagenum: 79
title: radio in forma; pagenum: 90
title: Ritos de devoción al culto; pagenum: 91
title: Rites of Devotion to the Cult; pagenum: 116
title: Tom's restaurant; pagenum: 117
title: Tom's Restaurant; pagenum: 130
title: La mierda; pagenum: 131
title: Shit (La mierda); pagenum: 150
title: De un pájaro las dos alas; pagenum: 151
title: De un pájaro las dos alas; pagenum: 176
title: Cine desacralizado del mediodía; pagenum: 177
title: Noon Murder Matinée; pagenum: 202
title: Perdida (con A) en el Museo de Historia Natural; pagenum: 203
title: Lost (with A) in the Museum of Natural History; pagenum: 238
title: Humana, de piel, encuadernada de piel; pagenum: 239
title: Human, Bound with Skin; pagenum: 268
title: http://www.songorocosongo.com/~muñeca; pagenum: 269
title: http://www.songorocosongo.com/~muñeca; pagenum: 284
title: Tren delantero; pagenum: 285
title: Forward Train