Hispanisms and Homosexualities

by Molloy, Sylvia; Irwin, Robert McKee; Barale, Michele Aina; Goldberg, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780822321989
• ISBN10: 082232198X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

""Hispanisms and Homosexualities" makes a lasting contribution to the fields of Spanish and Latin American literary studies as well as to lesbian and gay studies. Original and provocative, it provides an impressive display of the new scholarship in these areas."--David Roman, University of Southern California

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Gender at Loss

Interrogating Hermaphroditism in Sixteenth-Century Spain

Skirting the Question: Lesbians and María de Zayas

The Legend of Jorge Cuesta: The Perils of Alchemy and The Paranoia of Gender

Nationalism and Desire

Poetry, Revolution, Homophobia: Polemics from the Mexican Revolution

Nationalism, Male Anxiety, and the Lesbian Body in Puerto Rican Narrative

Caribbean Dislocations: Arenas and Ramos Otero in New York

Queers and/in Performance

The Swishing of Gender: Homographetic Marks in Lazarillo de Tormes

The Poetics of Posing

The Signifying Queen: Critical Notes from a Latino Queer

Pedro Zamora's Real World of Counterpublicity: Performing an Ethics of the Self

Desire and Representation

Sexual Terror: Identity and Fragmentation in Juan Goytisolo's Paisajes después de la batalla

Abjection and Ambiguity: Lesbian Desire in Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas

Cuban Homosexualities: On the Beach with Néstor Almendros and Reinaldo Arenas

Virgilio Peñera: On the Weight of the Insular Flesh

Works Cited

Contributors

Index

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