Description
Book SynopsisQuestioning the traditional association between machismo and Hispanic culture, this collection of essays focuses on revisiting archetypes of masculinity from medieval Iberia to the present by placing them in the context of the divergent counter-images that have always existed below the radar. The essays in this volume investigate both the construction and de-construction of masculinity in Iberian cultures and literatures from different genres and historical periods and from different disciplines (literary studies, film studies, art, religion, visual culture, etc.) and methodological perspectives (masculinity studies, feminist theory, queer studies, cultural studies, etc.).
Queering Iberia is particularly concerned with exploring alternative models that examine or challenge canonical models of manhood, placing special emphasis upon re-visions of Iberian masculinities, especially as they are manifested in Catalonia, the Basque country, Galicia, and the Americas. This book starts o
Table of ContentsContents: Josep M. Armengol-Carrera: Introduction – José R. Cartagena-Calderón: Saint Sebastian and the Cult of the Flesh: The Making of a Queer Saint in Early Modern Spain – Begoña Regueiro-Salgado: Beyond Don Juan: Different Models of Masculinity in the Peripheral Authors from the Spanish Second Romanticism – Danny M. Barreto: A Galician Werewolf in Spain: Contemporary Representations of Manuel Blanco Romasanta – Jaume Martí-Olivella: Mikel/Ander/Tasio: Narrative Castings and Othering Masculinities in Basque Cinema – Elena Valdez: Masculinities in Crisis: A
Tíguere, a Military Figure, and a
Sanky-panky as Three Models of Being a Man in the Dominican Republic.
