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In Circuits of the Sacred Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational black Latinx Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit. Decena models what he calls a faggotology-the erotic in the divine as found in the disreputable and the excessive-as foundational to queer black critical and expressive praxis of the future. Drawing on theoretical analysis, memoir, creative writing, and ethnography of Santería/Lucumí in Santo Domingo, Havana, and New Jersey, Decena moves between languages, locations, pronouns, and genres to map the itineraries of blackness as a "circuit," a multipronged and multisensorial field. A feminist pilgrimage and extended conversation with the dead, Decena's study is a provocative work that transforms the academic monograph into a gathering of stories, theoretical innovation, and expressive praxis to channel voices, ancestors, deities, theorists, artists, and spirits from the vantage point of radical feminism and queer-of-color thinking.
List of contents
Gratitudes ix
Part 0. Orígenes (Origins)
Pensar Maricón (Faggotology): An Introduction 1
1. Re-membered Life: A Composition for Egun 23
Part I. Caminos
2. Bridge Crónica: A Triptych, with Elegguá 33
3. Experiencing the Evidence 57
Part II. Dos Puentes, Tránsitos
4. Loving Stones: A Transnational Patakí 81
5. ¡Santo! Repurposed Flesh and the Suspension of the Mirror in Santería Initiation 102
Part III. Trances
6. Indecent Conocimientos: A Suite Rasanblaj in Funny Keys 125
Epístola al Futuro/An Epistle to the Future 155
Notes 159
Bibliography 175
Index
About the author
Carlos Ulises Decena
