Description
Book SynopsisHighly perceptive queer readings of fourteen key films to demonstrate how these cultural products promote the principles of an antiheterosexist stance while they simultaneously disclose how homophobia enforces the norms of heterosexuality.
Trade Review"Professor Foster clearly and insightfully articulates the ways in which well-known contemporary Latin American films create and negotiate meanings of gender identity and homoerotic desire within their sociopolitical contexts... In sum, this is a very interesting queer reading of some of the most important contemporary Latin American films." Emilio Bejel, Professor of Spanish American Literature, University of Colorado-Boulder, and author of Gay Cuban Nation
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introit: Queer Difference
- Homosexuality: In and Out of the Closet
- El lugar sin límites
- Aqueles dois
- Convivencia
- Political Intersections
- Conducta impropia
- The Disappearance of García Lorca
- La Virgen de los Sicarios
- Forging Queer Spaces
- Doña Herlinda y su hijo
- No se lo digas a nadie
- En el paraíso no existe el dolor
- A intrusa
- Queer Transcendence
- Plata quemada
- Afrodita, el jardín de los perfumes
- Fresa y chocolate
- Notes
- References
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
