Queer Rebels : : Rewriting Literary Traditions in Contemporary Spanish Novels.

• Superior document: Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature Series
• Author: Smuga, Łukasz.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2022.; {copy}2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (245 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Queers and Literature: The Spanish Context -- 1.1. Lorca Experts: Early Gay and Queer Criticism in Spain -- 1.2. Critically Queer? Spanish Studies in Anglo-American Academia -- 1.3. ¿Entiendes? Towards an Epistemology of 'the Opposite Pavement' -- 1.4. Against Nature and Culture: Attempts at Subversive Writing -- 2. Rewriting Foreign Traditions -- 2.1. 'Under the thin skin of this world': Mazuf's Gesture in This Breathing World by José Luis de Juan -- 2.2. The Pitfalls of Identity: Queering Shakespeare in Valentín by Juan Gil-Albert -- 2.3. Tadzio's Death in Venice: From the Sublimation of Desire to Tremendismo in La muerte de Tadzio by Luis G. Martín -- 3. Rewriting the National Tradition -- 3.1. The 'Intercourse of Saints' in A Cock-Eyed Comedy (Carajicomedia) by Juan Goytisolo -- 3.2. CAMPaign Against Transphobia: Yo no tengo la culpa de haber nacido tan sexy by Eduardo Mendicutti and the Pitfalls of Identity -- 4. Against Culture: Homosexuality and Counter-Culture in Luis Antonio de Villena -- 4.1. A Dandy's Gesture: Aestheticising Homoerotic Experience and the Law of Desire -- 4.2. Recycled Histories: On the Queer Continuum -- 4.3. Chronicles of a Death Foretold: The Movida Madrileña as a New Fin de Siècle -- 4.4. Bones of Contention: Addressing Homonormativity in Huesos de Sodoma -- 5. Against Nature: Homosexuality and Postmodernity in Álvaro Pombo -- 5.1. Under Suspicion: Pombo as a Scribe -- 5.2. Pombo as an Existential Philosopher and a Phenomenologist -- 5.3. The Predicament of Postmodernity: Pombo as Mazuf -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.