Cuir Dissidence : Tracing Restorative Criticism and Breaking Bonds with the Mexican Canon / Francesca Dennstedt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dennstedt, Francesca., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Mexican literature.

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

Mexican literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Feminism in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Sexual minorities in literature.

Canon (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2025]

Summary:

In Cuir Dissidence, Francesca Dennstedt uses affect and queer feminist theory to rethink the boundaries and hierarchies of the Mexican literary canon. Steeped in ideas of male genius and intrinsic aesthetic quality, the canon has long marginalized women writers by overlooking their contributions or placing their work into literary categories that perpetuate stereotypes about femininity. In response to this history of erasure and neglect, Dennstedt shows how women writers who identify as non-heterosexual or whose work is focused on critique of heteropatriarchal power structures have challenged the very idea of the canon through affect and non-conformity. Over the course of four chapters, she examines how writers like Inés Arredondo, Rosa Maria Roffiel, and Cristina Rivera Garza employ alternative sexual intimacies, gender dissidence, collective authorship, and experimental blending of genres to actively reject the canon. In addition to these creative readings of Mexican women writers, Dennstedt centers her own affective response to these texts to further challenge the traditional boundaries of literary criticism. The book thus prompts readers to see the intellectual project of these writers as a premeditated act of rebellion, one that can help deconstruct the power structures deeply ingrained in Mexican literature written in Spanish and create a space for these voices to flourish across time.

Contents:

Fucking with death and (not) yet cuir: Choking eroticism through the work of Inés Arredondo in complicity with Kati Horna, Leonora Carrington, and Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza / Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza

The restorative possibilities of an archive of gender playfulness: Women’s mustaches and the third gender

Snap, snap, snap!: Toward an affective cuir method of literary critique

Communal writings and the canon hoax: The Glu‑Glu fear and other elegant emotions

Acuerpar la lucha.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed May 12, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Dennstedt, Francesca. Cuir dissidence

ISBN:

9780826508041

0826508049

9780826508058

0826508057

OCLC:

1555316606

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license