Queer Women in the Hispanic Caribbean

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-031-97532-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: New Caribbean Studies

This book considers the apparent invisibility of lesbianism throughout the literary history of the Hispanic Caribbean (Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic), specifically during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries (1970s-2010s). The book looks at the way in which certain circumstances simultaneously hide, regulate, and allow the expression of what are considered sexual “deviancies.” It observes the methods through which alternative female sexualities have been previously silenced or represented only at the symbolic level and explores the reasons why lesbian characters have only recently found public and open representation within the literature of the islands. Therefore, the book aims to present a history of female characters who love women, thus instituting a lesbian literary canon in the Hispanic Caribbean.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martinez Reyes, Consuelo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

.- 1 Introduction.- 2 When Silence Speaks: Literary Precedents.- 3 Poetry Ungendered.- 4 Narrative and the New Lesbian Nation Abroad.- 5 Cinema, Sexual Fantasies, and Passing.- 6 Men Posing as Women.- 7 Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Consuelo Martínez Reyes is a writer, translator, and Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Her work centers on the representation of gender, sexuality, and national sentiments in Hispanic Caribbean cinema and literature. She is the editor and translator of  (2018) and author of the short story collection (2018), published in English under the title (2021). Her articles have appeared in the and , among others.