Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American, and Spanish CultureSusana Chávez-Silverman, Librada Hernández In this dynamic collection of essays, many leading literary scholars trace gay and lesbian themes in Latin American, Hispanic, and U.S. Latino literary and cultural texts. Reading and Writing the Ambiente is consciously ambitious and far-ranging, historically as well as geographically. It includes discussions of texts from as early as the seventeenth century to writings of the late twentieth century. |
Contents
María de Zayas and Lesbian Desire in Early | 21 |
Crossdressers Tribades | 43 |
Romantic Friendships | 62 |
The Silencing of a Voice | 93 |
The Queer Enigma | 114 |
Alternative Identities of Gabriela Mistral 19061920 | 147 |
Sandra Cisneros Talking Back | 181 |
by Carmelita Tropicana and Marga Gómez | 200 |
Queer Cortázar and the Lectora Macho | 239 |
Looking Queer in the Autobiography of Terenci Moix | 257 |
Lesbianism Female Homosociality and the Maternal | 275 |
Autobiography of a | 299 |
Contributors | 319 |