Hispanisms and homosexualities / Sylvia Molloy and Robert McKee Irwin, editors.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-307) and index.

I. Gender at Loss. Interrogating hermaphroditism in sixteenth-century Spain / Israel Burshatin ; Skirting the question: lesbians and María de Zayas / Mary S. Gossy ; The legend of Jorge Cuesta: the perils of alchemy and the paranoia of gender / Robert McKee Irwin -- II. Nationalism and Desire. Poetry, revolution, homophobia: polemics from the Mexican Revolution / Daniel Balderston ; Nationalism, male anxiety, and the lesbian body in Puerto Rican narrative / Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz ; Caribbean dislocations: Arenas and Ramos Otero in New York / Rubén Ríos Avila -- III. Queers and/in Performance. The swishing of gender: homographetic marks in Lazarillo de Tormes / B. Sifuentes Jáuregui ; The politics of posing / Sylvia Molloy ; The signifying queen: critical notes from a Latino queer / Oscar Montero ; Pedro Zamora's Real World of counterpublicity: performing an ethics of the self / José Esteban Muñoz -- IV. Desire and representation. Sexual terror: identity and fragmentation in Juan Goytisolo's Paisajes después de la batalla / Brad Epps ; Abjection and ambiguity: lesbian desire in Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas / Emilie Bergmann ; Cuban homosexualities: on the beach with Néstor Almendros and Reinaldo Arenas / Paul Julian Smith ; Virgilio Piñera: on the weight of the insular flesh / José Quiroga.