Hispanisms and homosexualities / Sylvia Molloy and Robert McKee Irwin, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Molloy, Sylvia, 1938-2022.

Irwin, Robert McKee, 1962-

Series:

Series Q.

Series Q

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American literature--History and criticism.

Spanish American literature.

Spanish literature--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Homosexuality and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A man masquerading as a lesbian in Spain’s Golden Age fiction. A hermaphrodite’s encounters with the Spanish Inquisition. Debates about virility in the national literature of postrevolutionary Mexico. The work of contemporary artists Reinaldo Arenas, Severo Sarduy, and María Luisa Bemberg. The public persona of Pedro Zamora, former star of MTV’s The Real World. Despite an enduring queer presence in Hispanic literatures and cultures, most scholars have avoided the specter of sexual dissidence in the Spanish-speaking world.In Hispanisms and Homosexualities, editors Sylvia Molloy and Robert Irwin bring together a group of essays that advance Hispanic studies and gay and lesbian studies by calling into question what is meant by the words Hispanic and homosexual. The fourteen contributors to this volume not only offer queer readings of Spanish and Latin American texts and performances, they also undermine a univocal sense of homosexual identities and practices. Taking on formations of national identity and sexuality; the politics of visibility and outing; the intersections of race, sexuality, and imperial discourse; the status of transvestism and posing; and a postmodern aesthetic of camp and kitsch, these essays from both established and emerging scholars provide a more complex and nuanced view of related issues involving nationality, ethnicity, and sexuality in the Hispanic world.Hispanisms and Homosexualities offers the most sophisticated critical and theoretical work to date in Hispanic and queer studies. It will be an essential text for all those engaged with the complexities of ethnic, cultural, and sexual subjectivities.Contributors. Daniel Balderston, Emilie Bergmann, Israel Burshatin, Brad Epps, Mary S. Gossy, Robert Irwin, Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz, Sylvia Molloy, Oscar Montero, José Esteban Muñoz, José Quiroga, Rubén Ríos Avila, B. Sifuentes Jáuregui, Paul Julian Smith

Contents:

Introduction / Sylvia Molloy and Robert McKee Irwin

I. Gender at Loss. Interrogating Hermaphroditism in Sixteenth-Century Spain / Israel Burshatin. Skirting the Question: Lesbians and Maria de Zayas / Mary S. Gossy. The Legend of Jorge Cuesta: The Perils of Alchemy and the Paranoia of Gender / Robert McKee Irwin

II. Nationalism and Desire. Poetry, Revolution, Homophobia: Polemics from the Mexican Revolution / Daniel Balderston. Nationalism, Male Anxiety, and the Lesbian Body in Puerto Rican Narrative / Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz. Caribbean Dislocations: Arenas and Ramos Otero in New York / Ruben Rios Avila

III. Queers and/in Performance. The Swishing of Gender: Homographetic Marks in Lazarillo de Tormes / B. Sifuentes Jauregui.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-307) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822399957

0822399954

OCLC:

607021874