Queer rebels : rewriting literary traditions in contemporary Spanish novels / Łukasz Smuga ; translated by Patrycja Poniatowska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smuga, Łukasz, author.

Contributor:

Poniatowska, Patrycja, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in Latin American and Iberian literature

Standardized Title:

Wbrew naturze i kulturze. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Gay people's writings, Spanish--History and criticism.

Gay people's writings, Spanish.

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

Spanish fiction.

Spanish fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Homosexuality in literature.

Homosexuality and literature--Spain--History.

Homosexuality and literature.

Homophobia in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xvi, 228 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"This is a study of gay narrative writings published in Spain at the turn of the twentieth century. The book scrutinises the ways in which the literary production of contemporary Spanish gay authors engages with homophobic and homophile discourses, as well as with the vernacular and international literary legacy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Queers and Literature: The Spanish Context

1.1. Lorca Experts: Early Gay and Queer Criticism in Spain

1.2. Critically Queer? Spanish Studies in Anglo-American Academia

1.3. ¿Entiendes? Towards an Epistemology of `the Opposite Pavement'

1.4. Against Nature and Culture: Attempts at Subversive Writing

2. Rewriting Foreign Traditions

2.1. `Under the thin skin of this world': Mazuf's Gesture in This Breathing World by Jose Luis de Juan

2.2. The Pitfalls of Identity: Queering Shakespeare in Valentin by Juan Gil-Albert

2.3. Tadzio's Death in Venice: From the Sublimation of Desire to Tremendismo in La muerte de Tadzio by Luis G. Martin

3. Rewriting the National Tradition

3.1. The `Intercourse of Saints' in A Cock-Eyed Comedy (Carajicomedia) / Juan Goytisolo

3.2. CAMPaign Against Transphobia: Yo no tengo la culpa de haber nacido tan sexy by Eduardo Mendicutti and the Pitfalls of Identity

4. Against Culture: Homosexuality and Counter-Culture in Luis Antonio de Villena

4.1. A Dandy's Gesture: Aestheticising Homoerotic Experience and the Law of Desire

4.2. Recycled Histories: On the Queer Continuum

4.3. Chronicles of a Death Foretold: The Movida Madrilena as a New Fin de Siecle

4.4. Bones of Contention: Addressing Homonormativity in Huesos de Sodoma

5. Against Nature: Homosexuality and Postmodernity in Alvaro Pombo

5.1. Under Suspicion: Pombo as a Scribe

5.2. Pombo as an Existential Philosopher and a Phenomenologist

5.3. The Predicament of Postmodernity: Pombo as Mazuf.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781032156453

1032156457

9781032211572

1032211571

OCLC:

1267586257