Tortilleras: Hispanic and U. S. Latina Lesbian Expression
The first anthology to focus exclusively on queer readings of Spanish, Latin American, and US Latina lesbian literature and culture, Tortilleras interrogates issues of gender, national identity, race, ethnicity, and class to show the impossibility of projecting a singular Hispanic or Latina Lesbian. Examining carefully the works of a range of lesbian writers and performance artists, including Carmelita Tropicana and Christina Peri Rossi, among others, the contributors create a picture of the...
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The first anthology to focus exclusively on queer readings of Spanish, Latin American, and US Latina lesbian literature and culture, Tortilleras interrogates issues of gender, national identity, race, ethnicity, and class to show the impossibility of projecting a singular Hispanic or Latina Lesbian. Examining carefully the works of a range of lesbian writers and performance artists, including Carmelita Tropicana and Christina Peri Rossi, among others, the contributors create a picture of the complicated and multi-textured contributions of Latina and Hispanic lesbians to literature and culture. More than simply describing this sphere of creativity, the contributors also recover from history the long, veiled existence of this world, exposing its roots, its impact on lesbian culture, and, making the power of lesbian performance and literature visible.Author Biography: Inmaculada Perpetusa-Seva is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Kentucky. Lourdes Torres is Associate Professor of Latin American/Latino studies at De Paul University.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Pt. IComing Out/Covering Up1From the Margins to the Mainstream: Lesbian Characters in Spanish Fiction (1964-79)192Carme Riera: (Un)Covering the Lesbian Subject or Simulation of Coming Out?353Tomboy Tantrums and Queer Infatuations: Reading Lesbianism in Magali Garcia Ramis's Felices Dias, Tio Sergio474Coming-Out Stories and the Politics of Identity in the Narrative of Terri De La Pena68Pt. II(Re)presenting Lesbian Desire5Silent Pleasures and Pleasures of Silence: Ana Maria Moix's "Las Virtudes Peligrosas"816Reading, Writing, and the Love that Dares Not Speak its Name: Eloquent Silences in Ana Maria Moix's Julia917Outside the Castle Walls: Beyond Lesbian Counterplotting in Cristina Peri Rossi's Desastres Intimos1188"He Made Me a Hole!" Gender Bending, Sexual Desire, and the Representation of Sexual Violence127Pt. IIISites of Resistance9Bomberas on Stage: Carmelita Tropicana Speaking in Tongues Against History, Madness, Fate, and the State14710Empowering the Feminine/Feminist/Lesbian Subject Through the Lens: The Representation of Women in Maria Luisa Bemberg's Yo, La Peor De Todas15911The Lesbian Family in Cristina Peri Rossi's "The Witness": A Study in Utopia and Infiltration17612Chicana Lesbianism and the Multigenre Text196Pt. IVRacialized Lesbianisms13Interracial Lesbian Erotics in Early Modern Spain: Catalina De Erauso and Elena/o De Cespedes21314Violence, Desire, and Transformative Remembering in Emma Perez's Gulf Dreams22815Learning to Live Without Black Familia: Cherrie Moraga's Nationalist Articulations24016Shameless Histories: Chicana Lesbian Fictions Talking Race/Talking Sex258About the Contributors277
