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Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes

David William Foster
Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes Book PDF

Author : David William Foster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313368745

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Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes by David William Foster Pdf

Gay and lesbian themes in Latin American literature have been largely ignored. This reference fills this gap by providing more than a hundred alphabetically arranged entries for Latin American authors who have treated gay or lesbian material in their works. Each entry explores the significance of gay and lesbian themes in a particular author's writings and closes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The figures included have a professed gay identity, or have written on gay or lesbian themes in either a positive or negative way, or have authored works in which a gay sensibility can be identified. The volume pays particular attention to the difficulty of ascribing North American critical perspectives to Latin American authors, and studies these authors within the larger context of Latin American culture. The book includes entries for men and women, and for authors from Latin American countries as well as Latino writers from the United States. The entries are written by roughly 60 expert contributors from Latin America, the U.S., and Europe.

Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing

David William Foster
Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing Book PDF

Author : David William Foster
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292733336

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Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing by David William Foster Pdf

A taboo subject in many cultures, homosexuality has been traditionally repressed in Latin America, both as a way of life and as a subject for literature. Yet numerous writers have attempted to break the cultural silence surrounding homosexuality, using various strategies to overtly or covertly discuss lesbian and gay themes. In this study, David William Foster examines more than two dozen texts that deal with gay and lesbian topics, drawing from them significant insights into the relationship between homosexuality and society in different Latin American countries and time periods. Foster's study includes works both sympathetic and antagonistic to homosexuality, showing the range of opinion on this topic. The preponderance of his examples come from Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, countries with historically active gay communities, although he also includes material on other countries. Noteworthy among the authors covered are Reinaldo Arenas, Adolfo Caminha, Isaac Chocrón, José Donoso, Sylvia Molloy, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Luis Zapata.

Reading and Writing the Ambiente

Susana Chávez-Silverman,Librada Hernández
Reading and Writing the Ambiente Book PDF

Author : Susana Chávez-Silverman,Librada Hernández
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0299167844

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Reading and Writing the Ambiente by Susana Chávez-Silverman,Librada Hernández Pdf

In this dynamic collection of essays, many leading literary scholars trace gay and lesbian themes in Latin American, Hispanic, and U.S. Latino literary and cultural texts. Reading and Writing the Ambiente is consciously ambitious and far-ranging, historically as well as geographically. It includes discussions of texts from as early as the seventeenth century to writings of the late twentieth century. Reading and Writing the Ambiente also underscores the ways in which lesbian and gay self-representation in Hispanic texts differs from representations in Anglo-American texts. The contributors demonstrate that--unlike the emphasis on the individual in Anglo- American sexual identity--Latino, Spanish, and Latin American sexual identity is produced in the surrounding culture and community, in the ambiente. As one of the first collections of its kind, Reading and Writing the Ambiente is expressive of the next wave of gay Hispanic and Latin scholarship.

Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies

Timothy Murphy
Reader s Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies Book PDF

Author : Timothy Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135942342

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Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies by Timothy Murphy Pdf

The Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies surveys the field in some 470 entries on individuals (Adrienne Rich); arts and cultural studies (Dance); ethics, religion, and philosophical issues (Monastic Traditions); historical figures, periods, and ideas (Germany between the World Wars); language, literature, and communication (British Drama); law and politics (Child Custody); medicine and biological sciences (Health and Illness); and psychology, social sciences, and education (Kinsey Report).

Sexual Textualities

David William Foster
Sexual Textualities Book PDF

Author : David William Foster
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292734067

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Sexual Textualities by David William Foster Pdf

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. 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.

Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities

David W. Foster
Chicano Latino Homoerotic Identities Book PDF

Author : David W. Foster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317944461

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Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities by David W. Foster Pdf

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Lesbian Voices From Latin America

Elena M. Martínez
Lesbian Voices From Latin America Book PDF

Author : Elena M. Martínez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351817899

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Lesbian Voices From Latin America by Elena M. Martínez Pdf

In spite of the attention that Latin American women writers have attracted in recent years, a book dedicated exclusively to those writers whose work primarily articulates a lesbian perspective was until now missing. The purpose of this book, first published in 1996, is to bring attention to and examine the articulation of lesbian themes, motifs and issues in the works of these writers. It aims to study the problems pertaining to the specific literary representations of lesbianism and to examine the dimensions of a lesbian view in the works. By undertaking the study of the works of these women writers, this book contributes to the recognition and legitimization of a lesbian literary discourse.

The Social Conscience of Latin American Writing

Naomi Lindstrom
The Social Conscience of Latin American Writing Book PDF

Author : Naomi Lindstrom
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292778115

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The Social Conscience of Latin American Writing by Naomi Lindstrom Pdf

Literature in Latin America has long been a vehicle for debates over the interpretation of social history, cultural identity, and artistic independence. Indeed, Latin American literature has gained international respect for its ability to present social criticism through works of imaginative creation. In this comprehensive, up-to-the-minute survey of research and opinion by leading Latin American cultural and literary critics, Naomi Lindstrom examines five concepts that are currently the focus of intense debate among Latin American writers and thinkers. Writing in simple, clear terms for both general and specialist readers of Latin American literature, she explores the concepts of autonomy and dependency, postmodernism, literary intellectuals and the mass media, testimonial literature, and gender issues, including gay and lesbian themes. Excerpts (in English) from relevant literary works illustrate each concept, while Lindstrom also traces its passage from the social sciences to literature.

Beyond Carnival

James N. Green
Beyond Carnival Book PDF

Author : James N. Green
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226306399

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Beyond Carnival by James N. Green Pdf

For many foreign observers, Brazil still conjures up a collage of exotic images, ranging from the camp antics of Carmen Miranda to the bronzed girl (or boy) from Ipanema moving sensually over the white sands of Rio's beaches. Among these tropical fantasies is that of the uninhibited and licentious Brazilian homosexual, who expresses uncontrolled sexuality during wild Carnival festivities and is welcomed by a society that accepts fluid sexual identity. However, in Beyond Carnival, the first sweeping cultural history of male homosexuality in Brazil, James Green shatters these exotic myths and replaces them with a complex picture of the social obstacles that confront Brazilian homosexuals. Ranging from the late nineteenth century to the rise of a politicized gay and lesbian rights movement in the 1970s, Green's study focuses on male homosexual subcultures in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. He uncovers the stories of men coping with arrests and street violence, dealing with family restrictions, and resisting both a hostile medical profession and moralizing influences of the Church. Green also describes how these men have created vibrant subcultures with alternative support networks for maintaining romantic and sexual relationships and for surviving in an intolerant social environment. He then goes on to trace how urban parks, plazas, cinemas, and beaches are appropriated for same-sex erotic encounters, bringing us into the world of street cruising, male hustlers, and cross-dressing prostitutes. Through his creative use of police and medical records, newspapers, literature, newsletters, and extensive interviews, Green has woven a fascinating history, the first of its kind for Latin America, that will set the standard for future works. "Green brushes aside outworn cultural assumptions about Brazil's queer life to display its full glory, as well as the troubles which homophobia has sent its way. . . . This latest gem in Chicago's 'World of Desire' series offers a shimmering view of queer Brazilian life throughout the 20th century."—Kirkus Reviews Winner of the 2000 Lambda Literary Awards' Emerging Scholar Award of the Monette/Horwitz Trust Winner of the 1999 Hubert Herring Award, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies

Spanish Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes

David William Foster
Spanish Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes Book PDF

Author : David William Foster
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313303326

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Spanish Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes by David William Foster Pdf

Spanish literature is one of the major European literatures, with an extensive array of canonical and important writers from the Middle Ages to the present. Because Spain was a crossroads of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic cultures, its cultural traditions weave together issues related to homoerotic practices and beliefs from these diverse origins. Homoeroticism, as a consequence, has always been a highly charged issue for Spain. But only since the return to a constitutional society after the death of Franco in 1975 and the international growth of interest in queer issues has it been possible to establish a reliable history of homoeroticism in Spanish culture. Many of these issues have been treated in Spanish literature, since the literature of a country so closely records its culture. This reference book examines the prominence of gay and lesbian themes in the works of Spanish writers and thus illuminates the homoerotic element in Spanish culture from the medieval period to the twentieth century. The volume presents entries for more than 50 Spanish writers, such as Federico García Lorca, Ignatius of Loyola, Juan de la Cruz, Miguel de Unamuno, María de Zayas, and Esther Tusqueto. The writers included fall chiefly into two groups: those of the canon whose works contain elements of interest to an agenda of sexual dissidence, and those who constitute a lesbigay inventory for contemporary Spain. Included are those writers whose works are of interest to lesbigay scholarship, regardless of whether the writers themselves were lesbigay. The volume also includes entries for several Spanish cultural figures such as filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar and painter Salvador Dalí, who were not writers but nonetheless inform the homoerotic background of Spanish writing and culture. Entries are arranged alphabetically and are written by expert contributors. Each includes a brief biographical profile, a discussion of gay and lesbian themes in the writer's works, and a bibliography. The volume also includes an extensive introductory essay and a list of major studies.

Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

David William Foster
Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema Book PDF

Author : David William Foster
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292781924

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Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema by David William Foster Pdf

Viewing contemporary Latin American films through the lens of queer studies reveals that many filmmakers are exploring issues of gender identity and sexual difference, as well as the homophobia that attempts to defeat any challenge to the heterosexual norms of patriarchal culture. In this study of queer issues in Latin American cinema, David William Foster offers highly perceptive queer readings of fourteen key films to demonstrate how these cultural products promote the principles of an antiheterosexist stance while they simultaneously disclose how homophobia enforces the norms of heterosexuality. Foster examines each film in terms of the ideology of its narrative discourse, whether homoerotic desire or a critique of patriarchal heterosexism and its implications for Latin American social life and human rights. His analyses underscore the difficulties involved in constructing a coherent and convincing treatment of the complex issues involved in critiquing the patriarchy from perspectives associated with queer studies. The book will be essential reading for everyone working in queer studies and film studies. The films discussed in this book are: De eso no se habla (I Don't Want to Talk about It) El lugar sin límites (The Place without Limits) Aqueles dois (Those Two) Convivencia (Living Together) Conducta impropia (Improper Conduct) The Disappearance of García Lorca La Virgen de los Sicarios (Our Lady of the Assassins) Doña Herlinda y su hijo (Doña Herlinda and Her Son) No se lo digas a nadie (Don't Tell Anyone) En el paraíso no existe el dolor (There Is No Suffering in Paradise) A intrusa (The Interloper) Plata quemada (Burnt Money) Afrodita (Aphrodite) Fresa y chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate)

A Companion to Latin American Literature

Stephen M. Hart
A Companion to Latin American Literature Book PDF

Author : Stephen M. Hart
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855661479

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A Companion to Latin American Literature by Stephen M. Hart Pdf

A Companion to Latin American Literature offers a lively and informative introduction to the most significant literary works produced in Latin America from the fifteenth century until the present day. It shows how the press, and its product the printed word, functioned as the common denominator binding together, in different ways over time, the complex and variable relationship between the writer, the reader and the state. The meandering story of the evolution of Latin American literature - from the letters of discovery written by Christopher Columbus and Vaz de Caminha, via the Republican era at the end of the nineteenth century when writers in Rio de Janeiro as much as in Buenos Aires were beginning to live off their pens as journalists and serial novelists, until the 1960s when writers of the quality of Clarice Lispector in Brazil and García Márquez in Colombia suddenly burst onto the world stage - is traced chronologically in six chapters which introduce the main writers in the main genres of poetry, prose, the novel, drama, and the essay. A final chapter evaluates the post-boom novel, testimonio, Latino and Brazuca literature, gay, Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Brazilian literature, along with the Novel of the New Millennium. This study also offers suggestions for further reading. STEPHEN M. HART is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University College London, and Profesor Honorario, Universidad de San Marcos, Lima.

Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003

Daniel Balderston,Mike Gonzalez
Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature 1900 2003 Book PDF

Author : Daniel Balderston,Mike Gonzalez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Caribbean literature
ISBN : 9781134399604

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Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003 by Daniel Balderston,Mike Gonzalez Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric.The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well.

Jewish Writers of Latin America

Darrell B. Lockhart
Jewish Writers of Latin America Book PDF

Author : Darrell B. Lockhart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134754274

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Jewish Writers of Latin America by Darrell B. Lockhart Pdf

Jewish writing has only recently begun to be recognized as a major cultural phenomenon in Latin American literature. Nevertheless, the majority of students and even Latin American literary specialists, remain uninformed about this significant body of writing. This Dictionary is the first comprehensive bibliographical and critical source book on Latin American Jewish literature. It represents the research efforts of 50 scholars from the United States, Latin America, and Israel who are dedicated to the advancement of Latin American Jewish studies. An introduction by the editor is followed by entries on 118 authors that provide both biographical information and a critical summary of works. Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico-home to the largest Jewish communities in Latin America-are the countries with the greatest representation, but there are essays on writers from Venezuela, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Cuba.

Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature

Verity Smith
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature Book PDF

Author : Verity Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2060 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135314248

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Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature by Verity Smith Pdf

A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book