Hindsight and the real : subjectivity in gay hispanic autobiography / David Vilaseca.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vilaseca, David, 1964-

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Spanish--20th century--Biography--History and criticism.

Authors, Spanish.

Authors, Spanish American.

Biography.

Authors, Spanish American--20th century--Biography--History and criticism.

Autobiography.

Homosexuality in literature.

Self in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Arenas, Reinaldo, 1943-1990.

Arenas, Reinaldo.

Gil de Biedma, Jaime, 1929-1990.

Gil de Biedma, Jaime.

Goytisolo, Juan.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

368 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction: From the Balkans to Spanish Cultural Studies ... and on to Gay Hispanic Autobiography 19

Chapter 1. 'In Dali more than Dali': Un diari 1919-1920 and the Real of Salvador Dali's Autobiography 37

1. The Real in Dali's Autobiography 44

2. Un diari: 1919-1920 and The Secret Life of Salvador Dali: A Selective Comparison 48

3. The Repression of the Real 66

Chapter 2. Writing 'AIDS': Identity, Metaphor and the Enjoyment of the Sinthome in Herve Guibert and Reinaldo Arenas 71

1. 'AIDS', Identity and Metaphor in Herve Guibert 78

2. Enjoy your Symptom! 'AIDS' as a Source of 'Enjoymeant' in Reinaldo Arenas's Antes que anochezca 92

Chapter 3. On the Constitution and Uses of Homosexuality in Reinaldo Arenas's Antes que anochezca 111

1. Interpellation and Its Discontents: 'Pajaro; eso es lo que tu eres' 111

2. 'Your Freedom or Your Life!': Identification and the Double Bind of Ideology 121

3. 'In the Absence of God, All Is Forbidden': Homosexuality Behind Bars 130

4. Heterosexual Homosexuality?: 'Lo que uno busca es su contrario' 142

Chapter 4. Reinaldo Arenas Betweeen States: Exile, Identification and the Question of the (M)other 153

1. 'Home Is Where the Hatred Is: Exile and 'Homeland' in Antes que anochezca 157

2. 'A Boy's Best Friend Is His (M)other': Mourning, Identification and the Question of Masculine Psychosis 175

Chapter 5. 'Waiting for the Earthquake': Homosexuality, Disaster Movies and the 'Message from the Other' in Juan Goytisolo's Autobiography 199

1. '"I've Just Been to the Butcher's."

"Sow!"' 199

2. Slavoj Zizek in Hollywood and Out 206

3. 'Everyone Says I love You': Homosexuality as a Message from the Other in Goytisolo's Autobiography 210

Chapter 6. Juan Goytisolo's Queer (Be)hindsight: Homosexuality, Epistemology and the 'Extimacy' of the Subject in Coto vedado and En los reinos de taifa 219

1. The Metaleptic Logic of Freud's Primal Scene and Goytisolo's Autobiography 220

2. 'Like His Mother Behind, Like His Father Before': Homosexual Challenges to Classical Epistemology 227

3. 'You Only Live Twice': Goytisolo's Encounter with Genet and the 'Extimacy' of the Subject 232

Chapter 7. The Ambassadors Goes to Manila: The Postcolonial Gaze in Jaime Gil de Biedma's Retrato del artista en 1956 241

1. Encountering the Postcolonial Gaze in 'Las Islas de Circe' 251

2. The Disavowal of the Gaze 256

3. Fatal Attractions: The Postcolonial as 'Anamorphic Skull' 261

4. A Peep Show through a Bottle of 'Smirnoff' Vodka: Gil de Biedma, Amenabar and the Other Side of the 'Sexual Relationship' 265

Chapter 8. 'Stuck Between Myself and Myself': Postcolonialism, Subjectivity, or Why Does One Write a Personal Diary? in Gil de Biedma's Retrato del artista en 1956 279

1. Empty (Colonial) Gestures: The Anti-Racist Homosexual in Gil de Biedma's Retrato del artista en 1956 282

2. Otherwise than Gil de Biedma (1): Time and Subjectivity in 'De regreso en Itaca' 294

3. Otherwise than Gil de Biedma (2): 'Saying' ('le Dire') as Real and as 'Prophecy' 307

Conclusion. 'Post-Deconstructive Subjectivity': The Excluded Middle 325.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-352) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0820462780

3039100092

OCLC:

52814076