Zeb Tortorici

Sins Against Nature

Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on over 300 prosecutions of sex acts in colonial New Spain between 1530 and 1821, Zeb Tortorici shows how courts used the concept "against nature" to try those accused of sodomy, bestiality, and other sex acts, thereby demonstrating how the archive influences understandings of bodies, desires, and social categories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780822371328
• ISBN-10: 0822371324
• Artikelnr.: 48917667

Autorenporträt

Zeb Tortorici is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University, coeditor of Centering Animals in Latin American History, also published by Duke University Press, and editor of Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Translation  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Archiving the Unnatural  1
1. Viscerality in the Archives: Consuming Desires  25
2. Impulses of the Archive: Misinscription and Voyeurism  46
3. Archiving the Signs of Sodomy: Bodies and Gestures  84
4. To Deaden the Memory: Bestiality and Animal Erasure  124
5. Archives of Negligence: Solicitation in the Confessional  161
6. Desiring the Divine: Pollution and Pleasure  197
Conclusion. Accessing Absence, Surveying Seduction  233
Appendix  255
List of Archives  261
Notes  263
Bibliography  297
Index  309