Queer Events Post-deconstructive Subjectivities in Spanish Writing and Film 1960s-1990s / Vilaseca, David

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vilaseca, David, author.

Series:

Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 4

Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary studies: general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Other Title:

Liverpool University Press Opening the Future.

Place of Publication:

4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool L69 7ZU Liverpool University Press 2010

Summary:

Queer Events studies the representations of queer subjectivities during the Spanish Transition era (1960s to 1990s), drawing on some of the most influential critical theorists and philosophers of our times (Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou). The book focuses on well-known Spanish authors and film-makers (Terenci Moix, Vicente Aranda) as well as on others who have merited far less critical attention so far (including Antonio Roig, Alberto Cardín, and the directors of the short-lived avant-garde film movement known as 'Escuela de Barcelona'). Queer Events studies for the first time crucial texts from the era of the Spanish Transition to democracy, taken here as the period lasting from the 1960s to the 1990s. It offers radically new readings of some major writers and filmmakers, such as Terenci Moix and Vicente Aranda, but also addresses some who deserve to be better known: defrocked priest and autobiographer Antonio Roig, controversial scholar and fiction-writer Alberto C... Publisher description

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Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9781800855502

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access