Jonathan Goldberg

Alexander Doty

Michele Aina Barale

Corey K. Creekmur

Charts some of the ways in which lesbians, gays, and queers have understood and negotiated the pleasures and affirmations, as well as the disappointments and denials, of mass culture. Challenging the hegemonic structure of mainstream opinion and representation, the essays collected here develop antihomophobic and antiheterocentrist critical approaches to some of the major forms of contemporary mass culture: film, television, popular music, and fashion. Paper edition (unseen), $22.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture

Out in Culture

Paul Julian Smith

Professor of Spanish and the Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Paul Julian Smith

Emilie L. Bergmann

"¿Entiendes?" is literally translated as "Do you understand? Do you get it?" But those who do "get it" will also hear within this question a subtler meaning: "Are you queer? Are you one of us?" The issues of gay and lesbian identity represented by this question are explored for the first time in the context of Spanish and Hispanic literature in this groundbreaking anthology. Combining intimate knowledge of Spanish-speaking cultures with contemporary queer theory, these essays address texts that share both a common language and a concern with lesbian, gay, and bisexual identities. Using a variety of approaches, the contributors tease the homoerotic messages out of a wide range of works, from chronicles of colonization in the Caribbean to recent Puerto Rican writing, from the work of Cervantes to that of the most outrageous contemporary Latina performance artists. This volume offers a methodology for examining work by authors and artists whose sexuality is not so much open as "an open secret," respecting, for example, the biographical privacy of writers like Gabriela Mistral while responding to the voices that speak in their writing. Contributing to an archeology of queer discourses, ¿Entiendes? also includes important studies of terminology and encoded homosexuality in Argentine literature and Caribbean journalism of the late nineteenth century. Whether considering homosexual panic in the stories of Borges, performances by Latino AIDS activists in Los Angeles, queer lives in turn-of-the-century Havana and Buenos Aires, or the mapping of homosexual geographies of 1930s New York in Lorca's "Ode to Walt Whitman," ¿Entiendes? is certain to stir interest at the crossroads of sexual and national identities while proving to be an invaluable resource.

Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings

Entiendes?

Michael Moon

Ellis Hanson

Brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism.

Essays on Queer Theory and Film

Out Takes

Michele Aina Barale

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