Nemir Matos-Cintrón
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1949 Santurce, Puerto Rico |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, media specialist |
| Nationality | Puerto Rican |
| Notable works | Las mujeres no hablan asi, A través del aire y del fuego pero no del cristal' "El arte de morir y La pequeña muerte,"Aliens in NYC." |
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Nemir Matos-Cintrón is a Puerto Rican author who resides in Florida. She has published several books of poetry and parts of a novel. She has openly thematized her lesbianism in much of her work.[1][2]
Life
Matos-Cintrón was born on November 19, 1949, in Santurce, Puerto Rico. She received her B.A. in Humanities from the University of Puerto Rico and later her Master’s of Science from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. During the 1980s, Matos-Cintrón taught television production courses at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico. She also worked as television producer for the all news Channel 24. At the same time she collaborated as scriptwriter for the miniseries Color de Piel, dealing with racial tensions in Puerto Rican contemporary society.[3] Her television writing led her to the creation and scripting of Insólito, a dramatic anthology series dealing with supernatural phenomena in the Caribbean. In the 90's, she returned to academia, as Lecturer at City University of New York. Her passion for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, and Multimedia Technology culminated with the research, production and publication of the multimedia CD-ROM Puerto Ricans in the USA: A Hundred Years.[4] In 2001, she moved to Orlando, Florida where she works as an Instructional Designer. She has completed her doctoral dissertation on mobile learning.She is known in folkloric terms as Nemir Matos Citroen.
Literary production
In 1981, Matos-Cintrón published her first two poetry books: Las mujeres no hablan así (San Juan, Puerto Rico: Atabex, 1981) and A través del aire y del fuego pero no del cristal (San Juan, Puerto Rico: Atabex, 1981). Las mujeres no hablan así is the first openly lesbian poetry collection in Puerto Rican literature.[5] A fragment of her first novel El amordio de Amanda dealing with growing up in the 60's in urban Puerto Rico, was included in the LGBT Puerto Rican literary anthology Los Otros Cuerpos (San Juan, Puerto Rico: Tiempo Nuevo, 2007). "El arte de morir" published in 2014, is an homage to friends who died from AIDS . Aliens in NYC deals with the subject of migration (2012, Atabex).
Works
- Las mujeres no hablan así. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial Atabex, 1981. Second edition, 2010. ISBN 978-0-557-40784-2
- A través del aire y del fuego pero no del cristal. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial Atabex, 1981.
- Aliens in NYC. New Jersey: Editorial Atabex, 2014. ISBN 978-1500750756
Secondary bibliography
- Colón Zayas, Eliseo R. “Insólito y los monstruos del espectador.” El Mundo, Puerto Rico Ilustrado, 13 May 1990, pp. 14–16.
- Cordero, Margarita. “La mujer migrante.” El Mundo, Puerto Rico Ilustrado, 13 May 1990.
- Echeandía, Servando. “Sobre Nemir Matos.” Reintegro, April 1983, p. 12.
- Matos-Cintrón, Nemir. “On Women’s Experimental Film.” 1990 Film Festival sponsored by the Puerto Rican Atheneum, published in Cineasta, no date.
- Ramos Otero, Manuel. "La luna ultrajada." Claridad, Puerto Rico, 1981.
- Velázquez, Rosa. “Nemir Matos Cintrón.” Siempre, 13–26 November 2003, p. 18.
See also
References
- ↑ Rodríguez-Matos, Carlos Antonio. "Matos-Cintrón, Nemir." In Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes, ed. David William Foster, 216-17. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-313-28479-3
- ↑ Sotomayor, Aurea María. "Nemir Matos: de lenguajes y mitos." De lengua, razón y cuerpo (nueve poetas contemporáneas puertorriqueñas): antología y ensayo crítico. San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1987. 54-57. ISBN 978-0-86581-417-2
- ↑ Author Biography on Nemir Matos-Cintrón. In David Caleb Acevedo, Moisés Agosto, and Luis Negrón, eds. Los otros cuerpos: Antología de temática gay, lésbica y queer desde Puerto Rico y su diáspora. San Juan: Editorial Tiempo Nuevo, 2007. 245. ISBN 0-9773612-8-4
- ↑ "First CD-Rom On Puerto Rican History/Culture In The U.S.A. Is Produced by Center at Hunter." Hunter College News (April 2000), retrieved June 4, 2009.
- ↑ La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence. Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8166-4091-1.
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