David William Foster

Sexual Textualities

Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analyzes questions of gender representation in Latin American cultural productions to establish the interrelationships, tensions, and irresolvable conflicts between heterosexism and homoeroticism. This title addresses topics that include Eva Peron as a cultural/sexual icon, feminine pornography, homoerotic writing and Chicano authors, and more.

Produktdetails

• Texas Pan American Series
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9780292725027
• ISBN-10: 0292725027
• Artikelnr.: 32965393

Autorenporträt

David William Foster is Regents' Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
One. Agenda and Canon: Some Necessary Priorities
Two. Evita Perón, Juan José Sebreli, and Gender
Three. The Case for Feminine Pornography in Latin America
Four. Queering the Patriarchy in Hermosillo’s Doña Herlinda y su hijo
Five. Homoerotic Writing and Chicano Authors
Six. Montes Huidobro’s Exilio and the Representation of Gay Identity
Seven. The Representation of the Body in the Poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik
Eight. The Crisis of Masculinity in Argentine Fiction, 1940–1960
Notes
References
Index