|
|
|
|
![]()
Available as an ebook at:
Amazon Kindle Apple Books Barnes & Noble Nook Brytewave (CafeScribe-Follett Higher Ed) Google Play Kobo |
Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Duke University Press, 1999 Paper: 978-0-8223-2349-5 | eISBN: 978-0-8223-8217-1 | Cloth: 978-0-8223-2326-6 Library of Congress Classification HQ76.3.S7Q44 1999 Dewey Decimal Classification 306.7660946
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers comprise the fascinating mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. The essays in this volume describe and analyze the sexual diversity that proliferated during the period between the tenth and the sixteenth centuries when political hegemony in the region passed from Muslim to Christian hands. To show how sexual otherness is most evident at points of cultural conflict, the contributors use a variety of methodologies and perspectives and consider source materials that originated in Castilian, Latin, Arabic, Catalan, and Galician-Portuguese. Covering topics from the martydom of Pelagius to the exploits of the transgendered Catalina de Erauso, this volume is the first to provide a comprehensive historical examination of the relations among race, gender, sexuality, nation-building, colonialism, and imperial expansion in medieval and early modern Iberia. Some essays consider archival evidence of sexual otherness or evaluate the use of “deviance” as a marker for cultural and racial difference, while others explore both male and female homoeroticism as literary-aesthetic discourse or attempt to open up canonical texts to alternative readings. Positing a queerness intrinsic to Iberia’s historical process and cultural identity, Queer Iberia will challenge the field of Iberian studies while appealing to scholars of medieval, cultural, Hispanic, gender, and gay and lesbian studies. Contributors. Josiah Blackmore, Linde M. Brocato, Catherine Brown, Israel Burshatin, Daniel Eisenberg, E. Michael Gerli, Roberto J. González-Casanovas, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Mark D. Jordan, Sara Lipton, Benjamin Liu, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Michael Solomon, Louise O. Vasvári, Barbara Weissberger See other books on: Cultures | Homosexuality | Homosexuality and literature | Middle Ages | Sex in literature See other titles from Duke University Press |
Nearby on shelf for The Family. Marriage. Women / Sexual life / Homosexuality. Lesbianism:
| |