| Hispanisms and Homosexualities Contributor(s): Molloy, Sylvia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 082232198X ISBN-13: 9780822321989 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1998 Annotation: ""Hispanisms and Homosexualities" makes a lasting contribution to the fields of Spanish and Latin American literary studies as well as to lesbian and gay studies. Original and provocative, it provides an impressive display of the new scholarship in these areas."--David Roman, University of Southern California "By problematizing both 'hispanisms' and 'homosexualities, ' this collection goes beyond the mere application of queer theory to Hispanic studies; it offers a series of meditations out of which both fields emerge enriched."--Arnaldo Cruz-Malave, Fordham University |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Hispanic American |
| Dewey: 860.935 |
| LCCN: 98003312 |
| Lexile Measure: 1540 |
| Series: Series Q |
| Physical Information: 1.03" H x 5.92" W x 8.84" (1.18 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Sex & Gender - Gay - Sex & Gender - Lesbian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Mar a 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 specter of sexual dissidence in the Spanish-speaking world. In Hispanisms and Homosexualities, editors Sylvia Molloy and Robert Irwin bring together a group of essays that advance Hispanic studies and gay and lesbian studies by calling into question what is meant by the words Hispanic and homosexual. The fourteen 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 postmodern aesthetic of camp and kitsch, these essays from both established and emerging scholars provide a more complex and nuanced view of related issues involving nationality, ethnicity, and sexuality in the Hispanic world. Hispanisms 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. Contributors. Daniel Balderston, Emilie Bergmann, Israel Burshatin, Brad Epps, Mary S. Gossy, Robert Irwin, Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz, Sylvia Molloy, Oscar Montero, Jos Esteban Mu oz, Jos Quiroga, Rub n R os Avila, B. Sifuentes J uregui, Paul Julian Smith |