The avowal of difference
Subtitle: queer Latino American narratives
By: Ben. Sifuentes-Jauregui
Series: Suny series, Genders in the Global South
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781438454252; 9781438454276
Subjects: Spanish American fiction; History and criticism; Homosexuality in literature; Gays in literature
Description: "The Avowal of Difference explores the potentialities and limitations that queer theory offers in the context of Latino American texts and subjects"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Unwriting the self: Modernismo, masochism and queer potential in Nervo's El bachiller; title: Queer losses in Barbachano Ponce's El diario de José Toledo; title: Adonis's silence : textual queerness in Zapata's El vampiro de la colonia Roma; title: Part II. Interventions:  Epistemerotics: Puig and writing desire; title: La Manuela's return: transvestism, identification, abjection in Lemebel's Loco afán; title: Part III. The body politic:  Homosociality, disavowal and pedagogy inbd05 2014-04-14's Los cachorros; title: Sadomasochism in paradiso: bound narratives and pleasure; title: On the homobaroque : queering Sarduy's Baroque genealogies; title: Part IV. Queer latina/o narratives: Queer latinidad: Thomas's Down these mean streets and Díaz's Drown; title: Traveling north, translating queerness: Rivera-Valdés and The trouble with discipline.