Description: This course aims to introduce the students to the main trends of queer studies on Latin American literature and culture. Significant works dealing with Latin American sexualities and studies of the body have been published in recent years. This scholarly production results from placing the episteme of body and sexuality on the central preoccupations of social sciences and humanities. Studying sexualities in Latin America conveys an intersection of multiple axes of difference (race, class, nationality, religion), where sexuality, rather than being considered an immanent object of study, functions as a theoretical basis for knowing culture and society. By reading literary and critical works in which body and sexuality are represented beyond the hegemonic gender system, this course will focus on three topics: a) queer rhetoric: (de) naturalization, performance and liminalities; c) marginal sexualities and national identity: modernity and citizenship in the representation of sexuality; b) images and self-images of the queer subject: homophobia, machismo, and queer body on the public arena; e) queer theory beyond sexuality: disability, monstrosity, and body transformations. The course will include: an introduction to the main concepts of queer studies; reading some critical works about queer Latin American culture; analyzing literature, art, and cinema with this approach.
Grading policy:
Oral presentation 10%
Class participation 15%
Annotated bibliography 10%
First draft of term paper 25%
Term paper 40%
Texts:
N/A. "Los 41. El escándalo periodístico de 1901." In Robert McKee Irwin, Edward J. McCaughan, and Michelle Rocío Jasser. The Famous 41. Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, 1901. New York: Palgrave, 2003.
Angelides, Steven. A History of Bisexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2001.
Arenas, Reinaldo. Antes que anochezca. Barcelona: Fábula, 1996.
Bejel, Emilio. Gay Cuban Nation. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2001.
Berman, Sabina. Lunas. México: Katún, 1988.
Berenguer, Carmen. Naciste pintada. Santiago (Chile): Cuarto propio, 1999.
Blanco, José Joaquín. Las púberes canéforas. México: Océano, 1983.
Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Castellanos Moya, Horacio. Baile con serpientes. Barcelona: Tusquets,
Connell, R. W. Masculinidades. México: UNAM, 2003.
Fiol-Matta, Licia. A queer Mother for the Nation. The State and Gabriela Mistral. Minneapolis: University of minnesota Press, 2002.
Jagose, Annamarie. Queer Theory. An Introduction. New York: New York U., 1996.
Lamborguini, Osvaldo. Novelas y cuentos. Barcelona: Serbal, 1988.
Lemebel, Pedro. Loco afán. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1996.
Molloy, Sylvia. "Too Wilde for Comfort: Desire and Idelogy in Fin-de-Siècle Spanish America." Social Text 31-32 (1992), 187-201.
Novo, Salvador. La estatua de sal. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1998.
Perlonguer, Néstor. Prosa plebeya. Ensayos 1980-1992. Buenod Aires: Puñaladas, 1997.
Peterse, Alan. Unmasking the Masculine. 'Men' and 'Identity' in a Skeptical Age. London-Thousand Oaks-New Delhi: Sage, 1998.
Puig, Manuel. El beso de la mujer araña. México: De bolsillo,
Quiroga, José. Tropics of Desire. Interventions form Queer Latino America. New York-London: New York University Press, 2000.
Richard, Nelly. Masculino/femenino: prácticas de la diferencia y cultura democrática. Santiago (Chile): Francisco Zegers, 1989.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California, 1990.
Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Ben. Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature. Genders Share Flesh. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
Vallejo, Fernando. La virgen de los sicarios. México: Alfaguara, 1999.
Zapata, Luis. El vampiro de la colonia Roma. México: Grijalbo,