Queer transitions in contemporary Spanish culture : from Franco to la movida / Gema Perez-Sanchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez-Sánchez, Gema, 1965-

Series:

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.

Suny series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spanish literature.

Homosexuality in literature.

Literature and society--Spain.

Literature and society.

Fascism and literature--Spain.

Fascism and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gema Pérez-Sánchez argues that the process of political and cultural transition from dictatorship to democracy in Spain can be read allegorically as a shift from a dictatorship that followed a self-loathing "homosexual" model to a democracy that identified as a pluralized "queer" body. Focusing on the urban cultural phenomenon of la movida, she offers a sustained analysis of high queer culture, as represented by novels, along with an examination of low queer culture, as represented by comic books and films. Pérez-Sánchez shows that urban queer culture played a defining role in the cultural and political processes that helped to move Spain from a premodern, fascist military dictatorship to a late-capitalist, parliamentary democracy.The book highlights the contributions of women writers Ana María Moix and Cristina Peri Rossi, as well as comic book artists Ana Juan, Victoria Martos, Ana Miralles, and Asun Balzola. Its attention to women's cultural production functions as a counterpoint to its analysis of the works of such male writers as Juan Goytisolo and Eduardo Mendicutti, comic book artists Nazario, Rubén, and Luis Pérez Ortiz, and filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar.

Contents:

Franco's Spain and the self-loathing homosexual model

Reading, writing, and the love that dares not speak its name

From castrating fascist, mother-nation to cross-dressed late-capitalist democracy : Eduardo Mendicutti's Una mala noche la tiene cualquiera

A voyage in feminist pedagogy : citationality in Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos

Drawing difference : the cultural renovations of the 1980's.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-241) and index.

ISBN:

9780791479773

0791479773

9781435626867

1435626869

OCLC:

191683589