Hispanisms and Homosexualities

S. Molloy

Hispanisms and Homosexualities
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Duke University Press
Country
United States
Published
23 October 1998
Pages
336
ISBN
9780822321989

Hispanisms and Homosexualities

S. Molloy

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A man masquerading as a lesbian in Spain’s Golden Age fiction. A hermaphrodite’s encounters with the Spanish Inquisition. Debates about virility in the national literature of postrevolutionary Mexico. The work of contemporary artists Reinaldo Arenas, Severo Sarduy, and Maria Luisa Bemberg. The public persona of Pedro Zamora, former star of MTV’s The Real World. Despite an enduring queer presence in Hispanic literatures and cultures, most scholars have avoided the spectre of sexual dissidence in the Spanish-speaking world. In this work, editors Sylvia Molloy and Robert Irwin bring together a group of essays that advance Hispanic studies and gay and lesbian studies by calling into questions what is meant by the words Hispanic and homosexual. The 14 contributors to this volume not only offer queer readings of Spanish and Latin American texts and performances, they also undermine a univocal sense of homosexual identities and practices. Taking on formations of national identity and sexuality; the politics of visibility and outing; the intersections of race, sexuality, and imperial discourse; the status of transvestism and posing; and a post-modern aesthetic of camp and kitsch, these essays from both established and emerging scholars provided a more complex and nuanced view of related issues involving nationality, ethnicity, and sexuality in the Hispanic world. Hispanism and homosexualities offers the most sophisticated critical and theoretical work to date in Hispanic and queer studies. It will be an essential text for all those engaged with the complexities of ethnic, cultural, and sexual subjectivities.

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