Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American, and Spanish Culture - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299167844 ISBN 13: 9780299167844

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000

Synopsis

In this dynamic collection of essays, many leading literary scholars trace gay and lesbian themes in Latin American, Hispanic, and U.S. Latino literary and cultural texts. Reading and Writing the Ambiente is consciously ambitious and far-ranging, historically as well as geographically. It includes discussions of texts from as early as the seventeenth century to writings of the late twentieth century.
    Reading and Writing the Ambiente also underscores the ways in which lesbian and gay self-representation in Hispanic texts differs from representations in Anglo-American texts. The contributors demonstrate that—unlike the emphasis on the individual in Anglo- American sexual identity—Latino, Spanish, and Latin American sexual identity is produced in the surrounding culture and community, in the ambiente. As one of the first collections of its kind, Reading and Writing the Ambiente is expressive of the next wave of gay Hispanic and Latin scholarship.

About this title

From the Publisher

Included in this book are essays by Emilio Bejel Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano Emilie L. Bergmann Robert Richmond Ellis Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal David William Foster Librada Hernández Elizabeth Rosa Horan Robert Mckee Irwin Harry Vélez Quiñones Susana Chávez-Silverman Carmen Tisnado Sherry Velasco

About the Author

Susana Chávez-Silverman is professor of romance languages and literatures at Pomona College in California. She is coeditor of Tropicalizations: Trans-cultural Representations of Latinidad and author of Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles y otros Natural Disasters and Killer Crónicas. Librada Hernández is assistant professor of Spanish at Los Angeles Valley College in California.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0299167844
• ISBN 13: 9780299167844
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Chávez-Silverman Susana, Hernandez Librada