Part I. Unwriting the self: Modernismo, masochism and queer potential in Nervo's El bachiller -- Queer losses in Barbachano Ponce's El diario de José Toledo -- Adonis's silence : textual queerness in Zapata's El vampiro de la colonia Roma -- Part II. Interventions: Epistemerotics: Puig and writing desire -- La Manuela's return: transvestism, identification, abjection in Lemebel's Loco afán -- Part III. The body politic: Homosociality, disavowal and pedagogy inbd05 2014-04-14's Los cachorros -- Sadomasochism in paradiso: bound narratives and pleasure -- On the homobaroque : queering Sarduy's Baroque genealogies -- Part IV. Queer latina/o narratives: Queer latinidad: Thomas's Down these mean streets and Díaz's Drown -- Traveling north, translating queerness: Rivera-Valdés and The trouble with discipline