"This is a groundbreaking collection of essays on gay and lesbian topics in Hispanic literatures--there is nothing that compares with it."--George Yudice, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
"This is a groundbreaking collection of essays on gay and lesbian topics in Hispanic literatures--there is nothing that compares with it."--George Yudice, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Acknowledgments xi Introduction / Paul Julian Smith and Emilie L. Bergmann 1 One. Re-Loading the Canon Aldonza as Butch: Narrative and the Play of Gender in Don Quixote / Mary S. Gossy 17 The "Fecal Dialectic": Homosexual Panic and the Origin of Writing in Borges / Daniel Balderston 29 Two. (Neo)historical Retrievals The Argentine Dissemination of Homosexuality, 1890–1914 / Jorge Salessi 49 Julián del Casal and the Queers of Havana / Oscar Montero 92 Three. Nationalisms, Ethnicities, and (Homo)sexualities Community at Its Limits: Orality, Law, Silence, and the Homosexual Body in Luis Rafael Sánchez's 'Jum' / Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz 115 Toward an Art of Transvestism: Colonialism and Homosexuality in Puerto Rican Literature / Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé 137 Fleshing Out Virgilio Piñera from the Cuban Closet / José Quiroga 168 The Lesbian Body in Latina Cultural Production / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano 181 Four. Biographical Constructions, Textual Encodings The "Schoolteacher of America": Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in Gabriela Mistral / Licia Fiol-Matta 201 Disappearing Acts: Reading Lesbian in Teresa de la Parra / Sylvia Molloy 230 A Logic in Lorca's Ode to Walt Whitman / John K. Walsh 257 Five. Queer Readers/Queer Texts The Look that Kills: The "Unacceptable Beauty" of Alejandra Piznarnik's La condesa sangrienta / Suzanne Chávez Silverman 281 Lesbian Tantalizing in Carmen Lugo Filippi's "Milagros, Calle Mercurio" / Luz María Umpierre 306 Six. Call to Theory/Call to Action Virtual Sexuality: Lesbianism, Loss, and Deliverance in Carme Rierra's "Te deix, amor, la mar com a penyora" / Brad Epps 317 Teatro Viva!: Latino Performance and the Politics of AIDS in Los Angeles / David Román 346 Nationalizing Sissies / José Piedra 370 Index 411 Contributors 427
Acknowledgments xi Introduction / Paul Julian Smith and Emilie L. Bergmann 1 One. Re-Loading the Canon Aldonza as Butch: Narrative and the Play of Gender in Don Quixote / Mary S. Gossy 17 The "Fecal Dialectic": Homosexual Panic and the Origin of Writing in Borges / Daniel Balderston 29 Two. (Neo)historical Retrievals The Argentine Dissemination of Homosexuality, 1890–1914 / Jorge Salessi 49 Julián del Casal and the Queers of Havana / Oscar Montero 92 Three. Nationalisms, Ethnicities, and (Homo)sexualities Community at Its Limits: Orality, Law, Silence, and the Homosexual Body in Luis Rafael Sánchez's 'Jum' / Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz 115 Toward an Art of Transvestism: Colonialism and Homosexuality in Puerto Rican Literature / Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé 137 Fleshing Out Virgilio Piñera from the Cuban Closet / José Quiroga 168 The Lesbian Body in Latina Cultural Production / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano 181 Four. Biographical Constructions, Textual Encodings The "Schoolteacher of America": Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in Gabriela Mistral / Licia Fiol-Matta 201 Disappearing Acts: Reading Lesbian in Teresa de la Parra / Sylvia Molloy 230 A Logic in Lorca's Ode to Walt Whitman / John K. Walsh 257 Five. Queer Readers/Queer Texts The Look that Kills: The "Unacceptable Beauty" of Alejandra Piznarnik's La condesa sangrienta / Suzanne Chávez Silverman 281 Lesbian Tantalizing in Carmen Lugo Filippi's "Milagros, Calle Mercurio" / Luz María Umpierre 306 Six. Call to Theory/Call to Action Virtual Sexuality: Lesbianism, Loss, and Deliverance in Carme Rierra's "Te deix, amor, la mar com a penyora" / Brad Epps 317 Teatro Viva!: Latino Performance and the Politics of AIDS in Los Angeles / David Román 346 Nationalizing Sissies / José Piedra 370 Index 411 Contributors 427
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