Queer Italia (Italian and Italian American Studies): Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film
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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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 paradoxically, a kind of queer canon results. These essays open a much-needed critical space in the Italian tradition wherein fixed definitions of sexual identity collapse. Queer Italia will be of interest to a wide audience of Italianists, medieval to modern, and queer cultural theorists.
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
