Book Presentation: “The Desirable Conduit: Cinematic Fantasies of Latino Sexuality and Labor”
Book Presentation: “The Desirable Conduit: Cinematic Fantasies of Latino Sexuality and Labor”
Richard T. Rodríguez is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics and A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and U.S. Latinidad, and co-editor of Puto: Plays, a collection of plays by Ricardo A. Bracho. Drawn from his book in progress, The Desirable Conduit: Cinematic Fantasies of Latino Sexuality and Labor, his talk will examine overlapping fantasies of racialized labor and sexuality in John Butler’s 2018 dramedy Papi Chulo.
Richard T. Rodríguez is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics and A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and U.S. Latinidad, and co-editor of Puto: Plays, a collection of plays by Ricardo A. Bracho. Drawn from his book in progress, The Desirable Conduit: Cinematic Fantasies of Latino Sexuality and Labor, his talk will examine overlapping fantasies of racialized labor and sexuality in John Butler’s 2018 dramedy Papi Chulo.