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This book considers the apparent invisibility of lesbianism throughout the literary and cinematic history of the Hispanic Caribbean (Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic), specifically during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries (1970s-2010s). The book looks at the way in which certain circumstances simultaneously hide, regulate, and allow the expression of what are considered sexual deviancies. It observes the methods through which alternative female sexualities have been previously silenced or represented only at the symbolic level and explores the reasons why lesbian characters have only recently found public and open representation within the literature and cinema of the islands. Therefore, the book aims to present a history of female characters who love women, thus instituting lesbian literary and filmic canons in the Hispanic Caribbean.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
.- 1 Introduction.- 2 When Silence Speaks: Literary Precedents.- 3 Poetry Ungendered.- 4 Narrative and the New Lesbian Nation Abroad.- 5 Cinema, Sexual Fantasies, and Passing.- 6 Men Posing as Women.- 7 Conclusion.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Consuelo Martínez Reyes is a writer, translator, and lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Her work centers on the representation of gender, sexuality, and national sentiments in Hispanic Caribbean cinema and literature. She is the editor and translator of Not the Time to Stay: The Unpublished Plays of Victor Fragoso (2018) and author of the short story collection En blanco (2018), published in English under the title Blank Canvases (2021). Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Lesbian Studies and Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, among others.
Zusammenfassung
This book considers the apparent invisibility of lesbianism throughout the literary and cinematic history of the Hispanic Caribbean (Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic), specifically during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries (1970s-2010s). The book looks at the way in which certain circumstances simultaneously hide, regulate, and allow the expression of what are considered sexual “deviancies.” It observes the methods through which alternative female sexualities have been previously silenced or represented only at the symbolic level and explores the reasons why lesbian characters have only recently found public and open representation within the literature and cinema of the islands. Therefore, the book aims to present a history of female characters who love women, thus instituting lesbian literary and filmic canons in the Hispanic Caribbean.
