Tortilleras : Hispanic and U.S. Latina lesbian expression / edited by Lourdes Torres and Inmaculada Pertusa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Torres, Lourdes, 1959-

Pertusa, Inmaculada, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbians' writings, Spanish American--History and criticism.

Lesbians' writings, Spanish American.

Lesbians' writings, Spanish--History and criticism.

Lesbians' writings, Spanish.

Lesbians' writings, American--History and criticism.

Lesbians' writings, American.

Spanish American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Spanish American literature.

Spanish American literature--Women authors.

Spanish American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Hispanic American authors.

Spanish literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Spanish literature--Women authors.

Hispanic American lesbians--Intellectual life.

Hispanic American lesbians.

Hispanic American women in literature.

Lesbians in literature.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

vi, 279 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003.

Contents:

From the margins to the mainstream: lesbian characters in Spanish fiction (1964-79) / Wilfredo Hernández

Carme Riera: (un)covering the lesbian subject or simulation of coming out? / Inmaculada Pertusa

Tomboy tantrums and queer infatuations: reading lesbianism in Magali García Ramis's Felices días, tío Sergio / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Coming-out stories and the politics of identity in the narrative of Terri de la Peña / Salvador C. Fernández

Silent pleasures and pleasures of silence: Ana María Moix's "Las virtudes peligrosas" / Nancy Vosburg

Reading, writing, and the love that dares not speak its name: eloquent silences in Ana María Moix's Julia / Gema Pérez-Sánchez

Outside the castle walls: beyond lesbian counterplotting in Cristina Peri Rossi's Desastres intimos / Janis Breckenridge

"He made me a hole!" Gender bending, sexual desire, and the representation of sexual violence / Regina M. Buccola

Bomberas on stage: Carmelita Tropicana speaking in tongues against history, madness, fate, and the state / Karina Lissette Cespedes

Empowering the feminine/feminist/lesbian subject through the lens: the representation of women in María Luisa Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas / Claudia André

The lesbian family in Cristina Peri Rossi's "The witness": a study in utopia and infiltration / Sara E. Cooper

Chicana lesbianism and the multigenre text / Elisa A. Garza

Interracial lesbian erotics in early modern Spain: Catalina de Erauso and Elena/o de Céspedes / Sherry Velasco

Violence, desire, and transformative remembering in Emma Pérez's Gulf dreams / Lourdes Torres

Learning to live without black familia: Cherríe Moraga's nationalist articulations / Christina Sharpe

Shameless histories: Chicana lesbian fictions talking race/talking sex / Catrióna Rueda Esquibel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1592130062

1592130070

OCLC:

50004336