Title: They dream not of angels but of men : homoeroticism, gender, and race in Latin American autobiography /
Authors: Ellis, Robert Richmond
Publisher: University Press of Florida,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Spanish American prose literature History and criticism.; Authors, Spanish American Biography History and criticism.; Autobiography; Homosexuality and literature Latin America History; Gender identity in literature.; Masculinity in literature.; Race in literature; Gay men in literature
Contents: Early representations of homoeroticism and race -- Juan Francisco Manzano : from homoerotic violence to the dream of a homoracial bond -- Augusto d'Halmar : the orientalization of homoerotic desire -- The making of heterosexuality, masculinity and whiteness -- Mario Vargas Llosa : a real man's life -- Elías Nandino and Raúl Thomas : writing in and out of machismo -- Reinaldo Arenas : from forced labor to AIDS -- Héctor Bianciotti : out of Latin America and back -- Conclusion : spaces of desire.