Tortilleras : Hispanic and U.S. Latina lesbian expression / edited by Lourdes Torres and Inmaculada Pertusa.

Other author Torres, Lourdes, 1959-
Other author Pertusa, Inmaculada, 1963-
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Temple University Press, 2003.
Descriptionvi, 279 pages ; 26 cm
Subjects
Lesbians' writings, Spanish American--History and criticism.
Lesbians' writings, Spanish--History and criticism.
Lesbians' writings, American--History and criticism.
Spanish American literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Spanish American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
American literature--Hispanic American authors. --History and criticism.
Spanish literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Hispanic American lesbians--Intellectual life.
Hispanic American women in literature.
Lesbians in literature.

Contents From the margins to the mainstream: lesbian characters in Spanish fiction (1964-79) / Wilfredo Hernández -- Carme Riera: (un)covering the lesbian subject or simulation of coming out? / Inmaculada Pertusa -- Tomboy tantrums and queer infatuations: reading lesbianism in Magali García Ramis's Felices días, tío Sergio / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes -- Coming-out stories and the politics of identity in the narrative of Terri de la Peña / Salvador C. Fernández -- Silent pleasures and pleasures of silence: Ana María Moix's "Las virtudes peligrosas" / Nancy Vosburg -- Reading, writing, and the love that dares not speak its name: eloquent silences in Ana María Moix's Julia / Gema Pérez-Sánchez -- Outside the castle walls: beyond lesbian counterplotting in Cristina Peri Rossi's Desastres intimos / Janis Breckenridge -- "He made me a hole!" Gender bending, sexual desire, and the representation of sexual violence / Regina M. Buccola -- Bomberas on stage: Carmelita Tropicana speaking in tongues against history, madness, fate, and the state / Karina Lissette Cespedes -- Empowering the feminine/feminist/lesbian subject through the lens: the representation of women in María Luisa Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas / Claudia André -- The lesbian family in Cristina Peri Rossi's "The witness": a study in utopia and infiltration / Sara E. Cooper -- Chicana lesbianism and the multigenre text / Elisa A. Garza -- Interracial lesbian erotics in early modern Spain: Catalina de Erauso and Elena/o de Céspedes / Sherry Velasco -- Violence, desire, and transformative remembering in Emma Pérez's Gulf dreams / Lourdes Torres -- Learning to live without black familia: Cherríe Moraga's nationalist articulations / Christina Sharpe -- Shameless histories: Chicana lesbian fictions talking race/talking sex / Catrióna Rueda Esquibel.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2002073203
ISBN1592130062 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1592130070 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ7081.5 .T68 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold