Queer Rebels : Rewriting Literary Traditions in Contemporary Spanish Novels.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smuga, Łukasz.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Queers and Literature: The Spanish Context
  • 1.1. Lorca Experts: Early Gay and Queer Criticism in Spain
  • 1.2. Critically Queer? Spanish Studies in Anglo-American Academia
  • 1.3. ¿Entiendes? Towards an Epistemology of 'the Opposite Pavement'
  • 1.4. Against Nature and Culture: Attempts at Subversive Writing
  • 2. Rewriting Foreign Traditions
  • 2.1. 'Under the thin skin of this world': Mazuf's Gesture in This Breathing World by José Luis de Juan
  • 2.2. The Pitfalls of Identity: Queering Shakespeare in Valentín by Juan Gil-Albert
  • 2.3. Tadzio's Death in Venice: From the Sublimation of Desire to Tremendismo in La muerte de Tadzio by Luis G. Martín
  • 3. Rewriting the National Tradition
  • 3.1. The 'Intercourse of Saints' in A Cock-Eyed Comedy (Carajicomedia) by Juan Goytisolo
  • 3.2. CAMPaign Against Transphobia: Yo no tengo la culpa de haber nacido tan sexy by Eduardo Mendicutti and the Pitfalls of Identity
  • 4. Against Culture: Homosexuality and Counter-Culture in Luis Antonio de Villena
  • 4.1. A Dandy's Gesture: Aestheticising Homoerotic Experience and the Law of Desire
  • 4.2. Recycled Histories: On the Queer Continuum
  • 4.3. Chronicles of a Death Foretold: The Movida Madrileña as a New Fin de Siècle
  • 4.4. Bones of Contention: Addressing Homonormativity in Huesos de Sodoma
  • 5. Against Nature: Homosexuality and Postmodernity in Álvaro Pombo
  • 5.1. Under Suspicion: Pombo as a Scribe
  • 5.2. Pombo as an Existential Philosopher and a Phenomenologist
  • 5.3. The Predicament of Postmodernity: Pombo as Mazuf
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index.