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Author:   Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9781438454252

ISBN 10:   1438454252
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   01 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Written Through a Body Part 1. Unwriting the Self 1. Modernismo, Masochism and Queer Potential in Nervo's El bachiller 2. Queer Losses in Barbachano Ponce's El diario de Jose Toledo 3. Adonis's Silence: Textual Queerness in Zapata's El vampiro de la colonia Roma Part 2. Interventions 4. Epistemerotics: Puig, Queer Subjects, and Writing Desire 5. La Manuela's Return: Transvestism/Identifiction/the Abject in Lemebel's Loco afan Part 3. The Body Politic 6. Homosexuality, Disavowal, and Pedagogy in Vargas Llosa's Los cachorros 7. Sadomasochism in Paradiso: Bound Narratives and Pleasure 8. On the Homo-Baroque: Queering Sarduy's Baroque Genealogies Part 4. Queer Latina/o Narratives 9. Queer Latinidad: Thomas's Down These Mean Streets and Diaz's Drown 10. Traveling North, Translating Queerness: Rivera-Valdes and the Trouble with Discipline Notes References Index

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The Avowal of Difference is a delightful critical encounter between queer criticism and Latino American literature and culture. I wish I had written it myself. - Ramon E. Soto-Crespo, author of Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico

""...although the book is academically rigorous the writing is clear and the whole is vivid and thought provoking."" - James Morgan Brown Review ""The Avowal of Difference is a delightful critical encounter between queer criticism and Latino American literature and culture. I wish I had written it myself."" - Ramon E. Soto-Crespo, author of Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico

Author Information

Ben. Sifuentes-Jauregui is Associate Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature: Genders Share Flesh.

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