Sexual Textualities
Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing
University of Texas Press · Print & ebook · September 1, 1997
Since the 1991 publication of his groundbreaking book Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing, David William Foster has proposed a series of theoretical and critical principles for the analysis of Latin American culture from the perspectives of the queer.
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- Who it’s for
- David William Foster examines gender, homoeroticism, and heterosexism across Latin American literary and cultural works.
- Genres
- Queer Literary Criticism, Caribbean & Latin American Criticism, Hispanic American Lit Crit
- Published
- University of Texas Press, September 1, 1997
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Since the 1991 publication of his groundbreaking book Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing, David William Foster has proposed a series of theoretical and critical principles for the analysis of Latin American culture from the perspectives of the queer. This book continues that project with a queer reading of literary and cultural aspects of Latin American texts.
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Moving beyond its predecessor, which provided an initial inventory of Latin American gay and lesbian writing, Sexual Textualities analyzes questions of gender representation in Latin American cultural productions to establish the interrelationships, tensions, and irresolvable conflicts between heterosexism and homoeroticism. The topics that Foster addresses include Eva Peron as a cultural/sexual icon, feminine pornography, Luis Humberto Hermosillo's classic gay film Doña Herlinda y su hijo, homoerotic writing and Chicano authors, Matias Montes Huidobro's Exilio and the representation of gay identity, representation of the body in Alejandra Pizarnik's poetry, and the crisis of masculinity in Argentine fiction from 1940 to 1960.
Latin American Texts
David William Foster examines gender, homoeroticism, and heterosexism across Latin American literary and cultural works.
Come here for
- Eva Perón as a cultural and sexual icon
- The body in Alejandra Pizarnik’s poetry
Expect
- Essays on feminine pornography and gay film
- Studies of Chicano authors, gay identity, and Argentine masculinity
Where it sits
| Queer Literary Criticism | 54% |
|---|---|
| Caribbean & Latin American Criticism | 38% |
| Hispanic American Lit Crit | 33% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Caribbean & Latin American Criticism
- Authors
- David William Foster
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- September 1, 1997
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Caribbean & Latin American Criticism