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1 online resource (473 pages) |
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Hispanic Issues |
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Hispanic issues.
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| Contents |
Esto no es una despedida; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Age of Suspicion: Mapping Sexualities in Hispanic Literary and Cultural Texts; Chapter 1 The Sexual Economy of Miguel de Cervantes; Chapter 2 The Sinful Scene: Transgression in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama (1625-1685); Chapter 3 Desire and Decorum in the Twentieth-Century Colombian Novel; Chapter 4 Representations of Family and Sexuality in Brazilian Cultural Discourse; Chapter 5 The Body in Context: Don Quixote and Don Juan |
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Chapter 6 Popular Culture and Gender/Genre Construction in Mexican Bolero by Angeles MastrettaChapter 7 Sexing the Bildungsroman: Las edades de Lulú, Pornography, and the Pleasure Principle; Chapter 8 El diario de José Toledo: A Queer Space in the World of Mexican Letters; Chapter 9 Camilo's Closet: Sexual Camouflage in Denevi's Rosaura a las diez; Chapter 10 Monobodies, Antibodies, and the Body Politic: Sara Levi Calderón's Dos mujeres; Chapter 11 Not So Lonely: A Butch-Femme Reading of Cristina Peri-Rossi's Solitario de amor; Chapter 12 The Case for Feminine Pornography in Latin America |
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Chapter 13 The Pornographic Subject of Los borbones en pelotaChapter 14 Codifying Homosexuality as Grotesque: The Writings of Virgilio Piñera; Chapter 15 Eroticism and Homoeroticism in Martín Fierro; Chapter 16 Intricacies of Brazilian Gayness: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Temporal Approach; Chapter 17 The Ecstasy of Disease: Mysticism, Metaphor, and AIDS in Las virtudes del pájaro solitario; Afterword; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Looking at a wide range of cultural practices and artifacts, including television, popular music, and pornography, Bodies and Biases addresses representations of sexual behavior and collective identity, homosexuality, and ideologies of gender in historical and contemporary Hispanic culture |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Latin American literature -- History and criticism
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Spanish literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society -- Latin America
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Literature and society -- Spain
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Sex in literature.
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Latin American literature
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Literature and society
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Sex in literature
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Spanish literature
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Spaans.
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Bellettrie.
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Portugees.
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Seksualiteit.
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Latin America
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Spain
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Latijns-Amerika.
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Spanje.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reis, Roberto
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| ISBN |
9780816687251 |
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0816687250 |
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