"This is a groundbreaking collection of essays on gay and lesbian topics in Hispanic literatures--there is nothing that compares with it."--George Yudice, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
"This is a groundbreaking collection of essays on gay and lesbian topics in Hispanic literatures--there is nothing that compares with it."--George Yudice, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Emilie L. Bergmann is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley and a coauthor of Women, Culture and Politics in Latin America. Paul Julian Smith is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Cambridge University. He is the author of many books including, Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar and Laws of Desire: Questions of Homosexuality in Spanish Writing and Film, 1960–90.
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Acknowledgments xi Introduction / Paul Julian Smith and Emilie L. Bergmann 1 One. Re-Loading the Canon Aldonza as Butch: Narrative and the Play of Gender in Don Quixote / Mary S. Gossy 17 The "Fecal Dialectic": Homosexual Panic and the Origin of Writing in Borges / Daniel Balderston 29 Two. (Neo)historical Retrievals The Argentine Dissemination of Homosexuality, 1890–1914 / Jorge Salessi 49 Julián del Casal and the Queers of Havana / Oscar Montero 92 Three. Nationalisms, Ethnicities, and (Homo)sexualities Community at Its Limits: Orality, Law, Silence, and the Homosexual Body in Luis Rafael Sánchez's 'Jum' / Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz 115 Toward an Art of Transvestism: Colonialism and Homosexuality in Puerto Rican Literature / Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé 137 Fleshing Out Virgilio Piñera from the Cuban Closet / José Quiroga 168 The Lesbian Body in Latina Cultural Production / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano 181 Four. Biographical Constructions, Textual Encodings The "Schoolteacher of America": Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in Gabriela Mistral / Licia Fiol-Matta 201 Disappearing Acts: Reading Lesbian in Teresa de la Parra / Sylvia Molloy 230 A Logic in Lorca's Ode to Walt Whitman / John K. Walsh 257 Five. Queer Readers/Queer Texts The Look that Kills: The "Unacceptable Beauty" of Alejandra Piznarnik's La condesa sangrienta / Suzanne Chávez Silverman 281 Lesbian Tantalizing in Carmen Lugo Filippi's "Milagros, Calle Mercurio" / Luz María Umpierre 306 Six. Call to Theory/Call to Action Virtual Sexuality: Lesbianism, Loss, and Deliverance in Carme Rierra's "Te deix, amor, la mar com a penyora" / Brad Epps 317 Teatro Viva!: Latino Performance and the Politics of AIDS in Los Angeles / David Román 346 Nationalizing Sissies / José Piedra 370 Index 411 Contributors 427
Acknowledgments xi Introduction / Paul Julian Smith and Emilie L. Bergmann 1 One. Re-Loading the Canon Aldonza as Butch: Narrative and the Play of Gender in Don Quixote / Mary S. Gossy 17 The "Fecal Dialectic": Homosexual Panic and the Origin of Writing in Borges / Daniel Balderston 29 Two. (Neo)historical Retrievals The Argentine Dissemination of Homosexuality, 1890–1914 / Jorge Salessi 49 Julián del Casal and the Queers of Havana / Oscar Montero 92 Three. Nationalisms, Ethnicities, and (Homo)sexualities Community at Its Limits: Orality, Law, Silence, and the Homosexual Body in Luis Rafael Sánchez's 'Jum' / Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz 115 Toward an Art of Transvestism: Colonialism and Homosexuality in Puerto Rican Literature / Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé 137 Fleshing Out Virgilio Piñera from the Cuban Closet / José Quiroga 168 The Lesbian Body in Latina Cultural Production / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano 181 Four. Biographical Constructions, Textual Encodings The "Schoolteacher of America": Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in Gabriela Mistral / Licia Fiol-Matta 201 Disappearing Acts: Reading Lesbian in Teresa de la Parra / Sylvia Molloy 230 A Logic in Lorca's Ode to Walt Whitman / John K. Walsh 257 Five. Queer Readers/Queer Texts The Look that Kills: The "Unacceptable Beauty" of Alejandra Piznarnik's La condesa sangrienta / Suzanne Chávez Silverman 281 Lesbian Tantalizing in Carmen Lugo Filippi's "Milagros, Calle Mercurio" / Luz María Umpierre 306 Six. Call to Theory/Call to Action Virtual Sexuality: Lesbianism, Loss, and Deliverance in Carme Rierra's "Te deix, amor, la mar com a penyora" / Brad Epps 317 Teatro Viva!: Latino Performance and the Politics of AIDS in Los Angeles / David Román 346 Nationalizing Sissies / José Piedra 370 Index 411 Contributors 427
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