Bodies Beyond Labels : Finding Joy in the Shadows of Imperial Spain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

de Armas, Frederick A.

Contributor:

Holcombe, Daniel.

Series:

Toronto Iberic Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joy in literature.

Sex in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2024.

Summary:

Bodies beyond Labelspresents an affirmative view of joy and non-labelled expressions of gender, sexuality, and performativity in the Spanish empire.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part One: Expressions of Joy in Light and Shadow: Pagan Myth and Christian Gazes

1 Forging Ganymede in Winckelmann’s History of the Art of Antiquity and Lope de Vega’s El castigo sin venganza

2 Ganymede, Narcissus, and the Joys of Teasing the Pagan in Tirso de Molina’s Religious La mejor espigadera (1614)

Part Two: Homoeroticism as Joyous Loving

3 Secret Intimacies: Eternal Homoeroticism in Cervantes’s El curioso impertinente

4 Queer Raptures Past and Present: Saint Sebastian and the Homoerotics of Martyrdom in Early Modern Spain and Italy

5 El casamiento entre dos damas by Pedro de Navarro: Finding the Joys of Non-heteronormativity in the Shadows of an Early Modern Spanish Romance

Part Three: Celebrating Joyful Non-labelled Bodies: Defying Fixed Identities

6 Joyful Visual Reinterpretations of Cervantes’s Dulcinea at the Graphic Humor Museum That Bears Her Name

7 Gardens of Gendered Joy in Tirso de Molina’s El vergonzoso en palacio (1621)

Part Four: Joys of Heaven and Earth

8 The Laugh of the Tenth Muse

9 “Special Friendships” in the Convent

10 Trans-figura-d in Joy: The Sensuality of Celestial Feasts in the Pageants of Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534)

Part Five: Finding Joy in Unexpected Places: Geographies of Sexual Exploration

11 Early Global Sexualities: Antonio Pigafetta and Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

12 (Dis)locations of Sodomy in Early Modern Spain

Contributors

Index

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ISBN:

9781487556907

148755690X

9781487556914

1487556918

OCLC:

1417668740