Entiendes?

by Bergmann, Emilie L.; Smith, Paul Julian; Barale, Michele Aina; Goldberg, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780822316152
• ISBN10: 0822316153
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This is a groundbreaking collection of essays on gay and lesbian topics in Hispanic literatures--there is nothing that compares with it."--George Yudice, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Re-Loading the Canon

Aldonza as Butch: Narrative and the Play of Gender in Don Quixote

The "Fecal Dialectic": Homosexual Panic and the Origin of Writing in Borges

(Neo)historical Retrievals

The Argentine Dissemination of Homosexuality, 1890-1914

Julián del Casal and the Queers of Havana

Nationalisms, Ethnicities, and (Homo)sexualities

Community at Its Limits: Orality, Law, Silence, and the Homosexual Body in Luis Rafael Sánchez's 'Jum'

Toward an Art of Transvestism: Colonialism and Homosexuality in Puerto Rican Literature

Fleshing Out Virgilio Piñera from the Cuban Closet

The Lesbian Body in Latina Cultural Production

Biographical Constructions, Textual Encodings

The "Schoolteacher of America": Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in Gabriela Mistral

Disappearing Acts: Reading Lesbian in Teresa de la Parra

A Logic in Lorca's Ode to Walt Whitman

Queer Readers/Queer Texts

The Look that Kills: The "Unacceptable Beauty" of Alejandra Piznarnik's La condesa sangrienta

Lesbian Tantalizing in Carmen Lugo Filippi's "Milagros, Calle Mercurio"

Call to Theory/Call to Action

Virtual Sexuality: Lesbianism, Loss, and Deliverance in Carme Rierra's "Te deix, amor, la mar com a penyora"

Teatro Viva!: Latino Performance and the Politics of AIDS in Los Angeles

Nationalizing Sissies

Index

Contributors

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