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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 MarÍa 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, JosÉ Esteban MuÑoz, JosÉ Quiroga, RubÉn RÍos Avila, B. Sifuentes JÁuregui, Paul Julian Smith
Table des matières
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
A propos de l'auteur
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.
Résumé
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.
