The likeness
By: María-Xosé Queizán ; translated from the Galician language by Ana M. Spitzmesser.
Contributors: Spitzmesser, Ana María.
Publisher: Peter Lang; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Description: "The Likeness explores how gay and lesbian sexuality is affected by social and psychological constraints in a world inextricably bound to heterosexuality as the socially dominant mode. Juanjo Vieitez's quest for the elusive "likeness" as sexual and emotional identity becomes doomed as he adopts different sexual attitudes in a vain effort to achieve authenticity in his personal relationships.

But in another sense, Juanjo Vieitez's struggle to overcome sexual barriers becomes the struggle of Spanish gay and lesbian culture to find a space of its own, free of the gender and sexual antagonisms that often alienate, even destroy, its still fragile and problematic existence."--BOOK JACKET.