Lesbian realities/lesbian fiction in contemporary Spain
By: edited by Nancy Vosburg and Jacky Collins
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780838757833
Description: Lesbian Realities/Lesbian Fictions in Contemporary Spain focuses exclusively on manifestations of lesbian cultures and identities in contemporary Spain. Bringing together key essays from a range of international scholars, this anthology of critical essays examines the changing cultural, sociological and political landscape of Spain at the turn of the millennium. Divided into two sections, the first contributions focus on the realities of lesbian lives and looks at how Spanish lesbian identities are constructed through language and the media. The essays in the second section analyze contemporary lesbian identities as manifested in novels and short stories published since the late 1980s by authors such as Carme Riera, Lola van Guardia, Flavia Company and Mabel Galn. The aim of this volume is to provide a significant and coherent contribution in English to the body of knowledge within an evolving subject area that has remained relatively under-researched until recently. This is an invaluable publication for teachers and students of Spanish cultural studies, global sexuality and gender studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Representation and the politics of visibility / Margaret Frohlich; title: Transitions and representations of lesbianism in the Spanish media / Raquel Platero; title: Living out/off Chueca / Maria Sofia Lopez Rodriguez and Yolanda Sanchez Paz; title: Politics and language: the representation of some "others" in the Spanish parliament / Encarnacion Hidalgo-Tenorio; title: Lesbian literary identities in the Chueca book business / Jill Robbins; title: "Sisters are doing it for themselves": lesbian identities in contemporary Spanish literature / Jacky Collins; title: "All L breaks loose": Lola Van Guardia's lesbian trilogy / Nancy Vosburg; title: The aesthetics of murder in Carme Riera's "Gloria": writing sexually subversive violence / Maria DiFrancesco; title: Flavia Company: from lesbian passion to gender trouble / Inmaculada Pertusa-Seva.