Laws of Desire Questions of Homosexuality in Spanish Writing and Film 1960-1990

Name: Laws of Desire Questions of Homosexuality in Spanish Writing and Film 1960-1990
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ISBN: 9780198119531

ISBN-10: 0198119534

ISBN-13: 9780198119531

Edition: 1992

Authors: Paul Julian Smith

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Homosexuality has been treated only in a fragmentary way in Hispanic Studies, and this is the first full-length study of the subject in contemporary Spanish writing and film. Introducing the book with a brief account of some medical, legal, and polemical texts, Paul Julian Smith, an established authority on Hispanic Studies, charts the varying representations of the feminist or gay "self" in autobiographical texts by Chacel, Goytisolo, and Terenci Moixs. He goes on to offer radically new readings of trilogies by Goytisolo and Tusquets, the major novelists of homosexual desire in Spain, in the light of influential French theorists Hocquenghem and Wittig. Finally, Smith draws on archival…

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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/19/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 260
Size: 5.69" wide x 8.81" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Abbreviations


List of Plates


Introduction: Desiring the Law


Writing the Self in Feminist and Gay Autobiography


The Risk of Essence


Rosa Chacel: The Repudiation of Femininity


Juan Goytisolo: The Territory of Homographesis


Terenci Moix: The Screens of Identity


The Ends of Autobiography


Homosexual Desire in Goytisolo's Trilogy of Treason


The Homosexual Question


Senas de identidad: Reproducing the Oedipus


Reivindicacion del conde don Julian: Baring the Phallus


Juan sin tierra: Grouping the Anus


The Homosexual Drift


The Lesbian Body in Tusquets's Trilogy


Lesbian Bodies


El mismo mar de todos los veranos: Myths of Nature


El amor es un juego solitario: Languages of Culture


Varada tras el ultimo naufragio: A Politics of Parody


Towards the Feminary?


Eloy De La Iglesia's Cinema of Transition


Homosexuality, Regionalism, and Mass Culture


Los placeres ocultos: The Erotic Triangle


El diputado: The Good Homosexual


El pico: Reproducing the Father


The Family Romance


Pedro Almodovar's Cinema of Desire


Homosexuality, Postmodernism, and Self-Publicity


Pepi, Luci, Bom: Lesbian Comedy


Entre tinieblas: Women in Chains


La ley del deseo: Crossing the line


Moral Melodrama


Coda: [actual symbol not reproducible]Atame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!)


Glossary of Film Terms


Bibliography


Index