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This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity in Spanish culture with wider implications for queer aging studies research.
List of contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Heather Jerónimo and Raquel Medina
Chapter 1: Reinscribing the Older Lesbian Subject on the Periphery: Age, Disability, and Abjection in
Salir del ropero (2019)
Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso
Chapter 2: The Tribe's Power: Older Lesbians and New Beginnings in
Elogio del Happy End (2012) by Isabel Franc
Garbiñe Vidal-Torreira
Chapter 3: Drawn from Memory: Queer Aging and Reparative Reading in Marina Velasco Marta's
Que no se olvide (2023)
Caroline B. Colquhoun
Chapter 4: Age, Success, and Struggle in Jaime de Armiñán's
Mi querida señorita (1972)
Alicia Herraiz Gutiérrez
Chapter 5: Documenting Aging as a Trans Experience in
Cantando en las azoteas (2022)
Raquel Medina
Chapter 6:
Veneno (2020): Resistance, Trangender Rage, and Resilience Despite Invisibilization and Discrimination
Hernando C. Gómes Prada
Chapter 7: Generativity, Intergenerationality, and Older Gay Men in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Christopher R. Carter
Chapter 8:
Doce Fábulas (2007) by Lluís Maria Todó as a Queer Aging Archive of Barcelona
Heather Jerónimo
Chapter 9: And the Ghosts Danced With Us: Intergenerational Dialogues in AIDS Performance
Isaias Fanlo
Index
About the author
Heather Jerónimo is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Northern Iowa, USA.
Raquel Medina is a visiting research fellow at Aston University, UK, and Dean of Area Studies at International Education of Students (IES Abroad Barcelona).
