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"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
List of contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Sylvia Molloy and Robert McKee Irwin ix
I. Gender at Loss
Interrogating Hermaphroditism in Sixteenth-Century Spain / Israel Burshatin 3
Skirting the Question: Lesbians and María de Zayas / Mary S. Gossy 19
The Legend of Jorge Cuesta: The Perils of Alchemy and The Paranoia of Gender / Robert McKee Irwin 29
II. Nationalism and Desire
Poetry, Revolution, Homophobia: Polemics from the Mexican Revolution / Daniel Balderston 57
Nationalism, Male Anxiety, and the Lesbian Body in Puerto Rican Narrative / Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz 76
Caribbean Dislocations: Arenas and Ramos Otero in New York / Rubén Ríos Avila 101
III. Queers and/in Performance
The Swishing of Gender: Homographetic Marks in Lazarillo de Tormes / B. Sifuentes Jáuregui 123
The Poetics of Posing / Sylvia Molloy 141
The Signifying Queen: Critical Notes from a Latino Queer / Oscar Montero 161
Pedro Zamora's
Real World of Counterpublicity: Performing an Ethics of the Self / José Esteban Muñoz 175
IV. Desire and Representation
Sexual Terror: Identity and Fragmentation in Juan Goytisolo's
Paisajes después de la batalla / Brad Epps 197
Abjection and Ambiguity: Lesbian Desire in Bemberg's
Yo, la peor de todas / Emilie Bergmann 229
Cuban Homosexualities: On the Beach with Néstor Almendros and Reinaldo Arenas / Paul Julian Smith 248
Virgilio Peñera: On the Weight of the Insular Flesh / José Quiroga 269
Works Cited 287
Contributors 309
Index 313
About the author
Sylvia Molloy is the Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at New York University. She is the author of numerous books including Signs of Borges, also published by Duke University Press.
Robert Irwin is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Tulane University.
Summary
A collection of essays that advance Hispanic studies and gay and lesbian studies by calling into question what is meant by the words Hispanic and homosexual. It offers queer readings of Spanish and Latin American texts and performances. It also undermines a univocal sense of homosexual identities and practices.
