Queer Italia
Gary P. Cestaro's Queer Italia includes essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern, and attempts to define a queer tradition in Italian culture. Contributors explore the multiform dynamics of sexuality in Italian texts and aim not to promote the mistaken notion of a single homosexuality through history; rather, they upset and undo the equally misguided assumption of an omnipresent heterosexuality by uncovering the complexities of desire in texts from all periods. Somewhat...
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Cestaro (Italian language and literature, DePaul University) collects essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern, that explore the dynamics of sexuality in Italian texts throughout history. Contributors upset the notion of an omnipresent heterosexuality by uncovering the complexities of desire in texts from all periods. The book will be of interest to an audience of Italianists and queer cultural theorists. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Introduction : queer Italia : same-sex desire in Italian literature and film11The dead sea of sodomy : Giordano da Pisa on men who have sex with men192Bibbiena's closet : interpretation and the sexual culture of a renaissance Papal Court353Knots of desire : female homoeroticism in Orlando furioso 25554ACTing up in the renaissance : the case of Benvenuto Cellini715"Nature is a mother most sweet" : homosexuality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian libertinism836Tra(ns)vesting gender and Genre in Flaminio Scala's Il (finto) marito1057Beauty and the beast : lesbians in literature and sexual science from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries1178Desire and disavowal in Liliana Cavani's "German Trilogy"1339Adapting to heterocentricity : the film versions of Umberto Saba's Ernesto and Giorgio Bassani's The gold-rimmed spectacles15310Reluctantly queer : in search of the homoerotic novel in twentieth-century Italian fiction17311Secret wounds : the bodies of fascism in Giorgio Bassani's Dietro la porta18712Transitive gender and queer performance in the novels of Mario Mieli and Vittorio Pescatori207
