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Tortilleras : Hispanic and U.S. Latina lesbian expression
- Title
- Tortilleras : Hispanic and U.S. Latina lesbian expression / edited by Lourdes Torres and Inmaculada Pertusa.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003.
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- Description
- vi, 279 pages; 26 cm
- Subjects
- Spanish American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Lesbians' writings, American > History and criticism
- Spanish literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Hispanic American lesbians > Intellectual life
- Hispanic American women in literature
- Lesbians' writings, Spanish > History and criticism
- Lesbians in literature
- Spanish American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- American literature > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism
- Lesbians' writings, Spanish American > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction / Lourdes Torres -- Pt. I. Coming Out/Covering Up -- 1. From the Margins to the Mainstream: Lesbian Characters in Spanish Fiction (1964-79) / Wilfredo Hernandez -- 2. Carme Riera: (Un)Covering the Lesbian Subject or Simulation of Coming Out? / Inmaculada Pertusa -- 3. Tomboy Tantrums and Queer Infatuations: Reading Lesbianism in Magali Garcia Ramis's Felices Dias, Tio Sergio / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes -- 4. Coming-Out Stories and the Politics of Identity in the Narrative of Terri De La Pena / Salvador C. Fernandez -- Pt. II. (Re)presenting Lesbian Desire -- 5. Silent Pleasures and Pleasures of Silence: Ana Maria Moix's "Las Virtudes Peligrosas" / Nancy Vosburg -- 6. Reading, Writing, and the Love that Dares Not Speak its Name: Eloquent Silences in Ana Maria Moix's Julia / Gema Perez-Sanchez -- 7. Outside the Castle Walls: Beyond Lesbian Counterplotting in Cristina Peri Rossi's Desastres Intimos / Janis Breckenridge --
- 8. "He Made Me a Hole!" Gender Bending, Sexual Desire, and the Representation of Sexual Violence / Regina M. Buccola -- Pt. III. Sites of Resistance -- 9. Bomberas on Stage: Carmelita Tropicana Speaking in Tongues Against History, Madness, Fate, and the State / Karina Lissette Cespedes -- 10. Empowering the Feminine/Feminist/Lesbian Subject Through the Lens: The Representation of Women in Maria Luisa Bemberg's Yo, La Peor De Todas / Maria Claudia Andre -- 11. The Lesbian Family in Cristina Peri Rossi's "The Witness": A Study in Utopia and Infiltration / Sara E. Cooper -- 12. Chicana Lesbianism and the Multigenre Text / Elisa A. Garza -- Pt. IV. Racialized Lesbianisms -- 13. Interracial Lesbian Erotics in Early Modern Spain: Catalina De Erauso and Elena/o De Cespedes / Sherry Velasco -- 14. Violence, Desire, and Transformative Remembering in Emma Perez's Gulf Dreams / Lourdes Torres --
- 15. Learning to Live Without Black Familia: Cherrie Moraga's Nationalist Articulations / Christina Sharpe -- 16. Shameless Histories: Chicana Lesbian Fictions Talking Race/Talking Sex / Catriona Rueda Esquibel.
- ISBN
- 1592130062 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1592130070 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002073203
- OCLC
- ocm50004336
- SCSB-4337199
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries