This paper focuses on camp characteristics of Eduardo Mendicutti’s novel Yo no tengo la culpa de haber nacido tan sexy and analyses the construction of gender identity of its transsexual protagonist. It also studies the way intertextual el ements are used by the author to queer the literary tradition of the Spanish Golden Age.
Pedro Lemebel is a Chilean performer and writer representing queer art. In his novel My Tender Matador he narrates a love story of two homosexuals: a drama queen and a revolutionary fighting against Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. The aim of this paper is to analyse how the novel shows the political dimension of homosexuality and gender ambiguity, and how it subverts the values represented by the dictator, scrutinized in the book with a queer eye.
This paper analyses urban spaces of crisis in Isaac Rosa’s novels La mano invisible (2011), La habitación oscura (2013), and the graphic novel Aquí vivió. Historia de un desahucio (2016) by Cristina Bueno and Isaac Rosa. It explores the dystopian and realistic elements in Rosa’s fiction and proposes to read his works through the lens of Michel Foucault’s essay on other spaces. The article argues that the unusual, quasi-dystopian spaces are of a double nature, typical for heterotopias, and play a significant role in the manner in which Rosa depicts the consequences of the economic crisis in Spain at the beginning of the 21st century.
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