Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture
From Franco to LA MOVIDA
- 273 pages
- English
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About This Book
Gema PĂ©rez-SĂĄnchez argues that the process of political and cultural transition from dictatorship to democracy in Spain can be read allegorically as a shift from a dictatorship that followed a self-loathing "homosexual" model to a democracy that identified as a pluralized "queer" body. Focusing on the urban cultural phenomenon of la movida, she offers a sustained analysis of high queer culture, as represented by novels, along with an examination of low queer culture, as represented by comic books and films. PĂ©rez-SĂĄnchez shows that urban queer culture played a defining role in the cultural and political processes that helped to move Spain from a premodern, fascist military dictatorship to a late-capitalist, parliamentary democracy. The book highlights the contributions of women writers Ana MarĂa Moix and Cristina Peri Rossi, as well as comic book artists Ana Juan, Victoria Martos, Ana Miralles, and Asun Balzola. Its attention to women's cultural production functions as a counterpoint to its analysis of the works of such male writers as Juan Goytisolo and Eduardo Mendicutti, comic book artists Nazario, RubĂ©n, and Luis PĂ©rez Ortiz, and filmmaker Pedro AlmodĂłvar.
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Table of contents
- Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Francoâs Spain and the Self-Loathing Homosexual Model
- 2. Reading, Writing, and the LoveThat Dares Not Speak Its Name: Eloquent Silences in Ana MarĂa Moixâs Julia
- 3. From Castrating Fascist Mother-Nation to Cross-Dressed Late-Capitalist Democracy: Eduardo Mendicuttiâs Una mala noche la tiene cualquiera
- 4. A Voyage in Feminist Pedagogy: Citationality in Cristina Peri Rossiâs La nave de los locos
- 5. Drawing Difference: The Cultural Renovations of the 1980s
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index