Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture: From Franco to La Movida

276 Pages·2012·1.792 MB·English

by  Gema Pérez-Sánchez

queer transitions
in contemporary
spanish culture
from franco to la movida
gema pérez-sánchez
Queer Transitions in
Contemporary Spanish Culture
SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
Jorge J. E. Gracia and Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal, editors
Queer Transitions in
Contemporary Spanish Culture
From Franco to la Movida
Gema Pérez-Sánchez
State University of New York Press
Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the Program for
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pérez-Sánchez, Gema, 1965–
Queer transitions in contemporary Spanish culture : from Franco to la movida /
Gema Pérez-Sánchez.
p. cm. — (Suny series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn-13: 978-0-7914-7173-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Spanish literature—20th century—History and criticism.
2. Homosexuality in literature. 3. Literature and society—Spain.
4. Fascism and literature—Spain . I. Title.
pq6073.h65p472007
860.9'353—dc22 2006032682
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To Pamela S. Hammons for her wisdom, love, and support.

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Franco’s Spain and the Self-Loathing
Homosexual Model 11
Chapter 2: Reading, Writing, and the Love That
Dares Not Speak Its Name: Eloquent Silences
in Ana María Moix’s Julia 35
Chapter 3: From Castrating Fascist Mother-Nation
to Cross-Dressed Late-Capitalist Democracy:
Eduardo Mendicutti’s Una mala noche
la tiene cualquiera 61
Chapter 4:A Voyage in Feminist Pedagogy: Citationality in
Cristina Peri Rossi’s La nave de los locos 113
Chapter 5: Drawing Difference: The Cultural Renovations
of the 1980s 143
Conclusion 187
Notes 197
Works Cited 223
Index 243
vii

Illustrations
Fig. 4.1. Uderzo and Goszinny. Le bouclier Arverne
Neuilly-sur-Seine: Dargaud Éditeur, 1968. 5.
First two frames. 141
Fig. 5.1. Cover of the first issue of Madriz(January 1984)
by Ceesepe. 150
Fig. 5.2.Ana Juan. Untitled. Madriz7–8. (Jul–Aug 1984): 40–41. 165
Fig. 5.3. Ana Miralles, “La sirena travestida.” Madriz15
(April 1985): 59. 168
Fig. 5.4.Asun Balzola, “Desventuras de Óscar.” Madriz3
(March 1984): 32–34. 170
Fig. 5.5. Nazario. Anarcoma,4th ed. Barcelona: La Cúpula,
1994. 17–18. 173
Fig. 5.6.Miguel Oriola. Untitled Photos. Madriz15
(April 1985): 18–19. 183
Fig. 5.7.Rubén. “Destino: Madrid.” Madriz13 (Feb. 1985): 14–15. 184
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