Bodies and Biases
Ed. David William Foster and Roberto Reis
Analyzes different representations of sexualities in Hispanic (and Brazilian) cultures and literature, focusing on established canonical texts as well as on less consecrated literary writings, and other types of cultural practices and artifacts, including television, popular music, and pornography.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Age of Suspicion: Mapping Sexualities in Hispanic Literary and Cultural Texts
Dário Borim Jr. and Roberto Reis
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The Sexual Economy of Miguel de Cervantes
Robert ter Horst
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The Sinful Scene: Transgression in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama (1625–1685)
Javier Aparicio Maydeu
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Desire and Decorum in the Twentieth-Century Colombian Novel
J. Eduardo Jaramillo Zuluaga
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Representations of Family and Sexuality in Brazilian Cultural Discourse
Roberto Reis
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The Body in Context: Don Quixote and Don Juan
James A. Parr
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Popular Culture and Gender/Genre Construction in Mexican Bolero by Angeles Mastretta
Salvador A. Oropesa
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Sexing the Bildungsroman: Las edades de Lulú, Pornography, and the Pleasure Principle
Silvia Bermúdez
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El diario de José Toledo: A Queer Space in the World of Mexican Letters
Marina Pérez de Mendiola
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Camilo’s Closet: Sexual Camouflage in Denevi’s Rosaura a las diez
Herbert J. Brant
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Monobodies, Antibodies, and the Body Politic: Sara Levi Calderón’s Dos mujeres
Claudia Schaefer-Rodríguez
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Not So Lonely: A Butch-Femme Reading of Cristina Peri-Rossi’s Solitario de amor
Mary S. Gossy
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The Case for Feminine Pornography in Latin America
David William Foster
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The Pornographic Subject of Los borbones en pelota
Lou Charnon-Deutsch
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Codifying Homosexuality as Grotesque: The Writings of Virgilio Piñera
Ana García Chichester
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Eroticism and Homoeroticism in Martín Fierro
Gustavo Geirola
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Intricacies of Brazilian Gayness: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Temporal Approach
Dário Borim Jr.
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The Ecstasy of Disease: Mysticism, Metaphor, and AIDS in Las virtudes del pájaro solitario
Brad Epps
Afterword
Naomi Lindstrom