Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American, and Spanish Culture

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Susana Chávez-Silverman, Librada Hernández
University of Wisconsin Press, 2000 - Homosexuality and literature - 335 pages

In this dynamic collection of essays, many leading literary scholars trace gay and lesbian themes in Latin American, Hispanic, and U.S. Latino literary and cultural texts. "Reading and Writing the Ambiente" is consciously ambitious and far-ranging, historically as well as geographically. It includes discussions of texts from as early as the seventeenth century to writings of the late twentieth century.
"Reading and Writing the Ambiente" also underscores the ways in which lesbian and gay self-representation in Hispanic texts differs from representations in Anglo-American texts. The contributors demonstrate that unlike the emphasis on the individual in Anglo- American sexual identity Latino, Spanish, and Latin American sexual identity is produced in the surrounding culture and community, in the ambiente. As one of the first collections of its kind, "Reading and Writing the Ambiente" is expressive of the next wave of gay Hispanic and Latin scholarship."

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María de Zayas and Lesbian Desire in Early
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Sodomites in Lope de Vegas El rufián Castrucho
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Sexual Identity and Sapphic Representations in Gómez
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