Description
Book SynopsisAn exploration of queer Madrid’s physical and symbolic literary culture.
Trade Review"With sharp and original analysis, Jill Robbins offers for the first time a profound investigation of the role of not only the formation of an urban gay community, but also of the participation of a local gay/lesbian bookstore on the visibility of lesbian culture and experience in Spain." —Inmaculada Pertusa, coeditor of Tortilleras: Latina Lesbians
"Reflecting a deep and insightful grasp of Spanish queer studies, Crossing through Chueca focuses on the increasingly globalized queer identity and book market in Spain, examining the changing publishing trends of the 1990s and its relationship to women writers." —Tatjana Pavlovic, author of The Mobile Nation (1954-1964): España cambia de piel
"Crossing through Chueca is a historically grounded, theoretically agile, and politically engaged exploration of a place and time marked as much by the triumphant rhetoric of democratic consolidation as by the troubling persistence of repressive tolerance." —Brad Epps, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University
Table of ContentsPreface: Marching toward Marriage
1. A Brief History of Chueca and Madrid's Queer Space
2. Lesbian Literary Identities in the Madrid Book Business
3. The New Safita: Andalusia and the Phallic Woman in
Plumas de España 4. Lesbian-Themed Best-Sellers and the Politics of Acceptance
5. Dislocations: Identity and Communication in
Cenicienta en Chueca 6. Popular Lesbian Fiction: Romance, Literature, and Legislation
Conclusion: Toward Lesbian Visibility
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes
Index
