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A Queer History of Flamenco
A Queer History of Flamenco offers a groundbreaking exploration of flamenco through the lenses of queer theory and cultural studies. Previous histories have provided a largely distorted image about why, where, and how people have done flamenco—as well as who has performed flamenco. Yet feminists, transvestites, butches, femmes, the Spanish Roma, disabled people, guiris, and “incomprehensible” artists have been determined to do things differently without giving up their flamenco status. In this skillful translation of his book Historia queer del flamenco, Fernando López Rodríguez draws on diverse archival materials as well as his own lived experience and artistic practice, unearthing ...
Queer Obscenity
Under Spain's twentieth-century dictators, state agents not only censored, eradicated, and attempted to prevent the circulation of obscenity, but also contradictorily engaged in curation and even restoration initiatives that have bequeathed us an extensive queer pornographic archive. Javier Fernández-Galeano takes us inside the archive to demonstrate how the incongruities of the Primo de Rivera (1923–1930) and Franco (1939–1975) regimes were manifested in the regulation of erotic material cultures. The dictators' authorities destroyed "straight" pornographies while often curating and preserving "queer" erotica. While reproductions of the masterpieces of Tintoretto, Michelangelo and Bott...
Center and periphery: Twenty-first-century literature, cinema, media from Spain
In a country where the richness of diverse cultures is often overshadowed by historical conflicts, this book delves into the complex relationship between the so-called “center” and “periphery” within Spain’s borders. Traditionally, the center has symbolized Castilian identity, while the periphery encompassed other regional cultures. But in today’s rapidly evolving social landscape, what do these terms really mean? This groundbreaking work reexamines the “center vs. periphery” paradigm through the lens of contemporary Spanish literature, cinema, and media. It poses critical questions about the existence and nature of a unified Spanish identity and investigates whether the tens...
The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain
The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain charts the key ideas, practices and imaginings that characterize Spain’s cultural, historical, social and political history in the contemporary period. The volume brings together internationally acknowledged scholars from around the globe and from diverse disciplines, from cinema and sociology, to sociolingusitics, politics and history, as well as various other cultural studies approaches. It offers an integrated multi-disciplinary volume that provides a more complete and nuanced multi-perspective assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture, with a special emphasis on recent decades. This interdi...
Screens, Music and Audiences
Our lives in the 21st century can no longer be understood without audiovisual culture, which not only conditions our daily lives, but also the way we access and understand reality. This book, formed by the contributions of 11 researchers, analyzes different aspects in order to better understand the relationship between image, music and audiences. It attends to mainstream culture, studying the meaning of music in products such as The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, Blade Runner, La mala educación and Treme. In short, the book explores the relationship between audiences, sound, noise, music and audiovisual media, a relationship whose history spans more than a century and which continues to offer artistic products that can be analyzed from sociological, semiotic and cultural perspectives.
Corpses, Fools and Monsters
A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future. In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order — relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters. In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down this lost highway, exploring the way that trans people and transness have evolved on-screen. Starting from the very earliest representations of transness in silent film, through to the multiplex-conquering Matrix franchise and on to the emergence of a true trans-authored cinema, Corpses, Fools and Monsters spans everything from musicals to body horror to avant garde experimental film to tell the story of the trans film image. In doing so, the authors investigate the wider history of trans representation — an exhilarating journey of compromise, recuperation, and potential liberation that they argue is only just the beginning.
Adulta funcional
El cuerpo poético de Adulta funcional es un cuerpo de frontera que habita entre lo doméstico y lo salvaje, la juventud y la vejez, la vulnerabilidad y la fuerza, ser madre y ser hija, el amor y la soledad, la esperanza y el duelo, las lavadoras y la espiritualidad, la intimidad y la exposición total, los recuerdos y los horizontes, la ternura y la ira, la amistad y la ruptura, la disidencia y la risa, la niña reivindicada y la mujer celebrada, el orgullo y la pena, los animales y las diosas, las escritoras veneradas y la libertad literaria, la mística y la terapia. Consciente de que todo puede ser verdad a la vez, Gloria Fortún, autora del poemario Todas mis palabras son azores salvajes y de la novela Roja catedral, descubre en cada verso que ser una señora, una señora bollera y gorda, es llevar un fuego dentro avivado por todas sus contradicciones, sueños y desobediencias, así como por su voluntad en combustión de que el deseo siempre venza a la norma.
Una mujer
«Las mujeres más escondidas de la historia siempre hemos existido. Seguro que hace poco que nos conoces, quizás somos totalmente nuevas en tu mundo, pero hemos alcanzado la superficie para quedarnos. Estamos aquí. Y te he escrito un libro». Hay momentos en la vida en los que nos observamos por fin en plenitud. Es entonces cuando dejamos de cuestionarnos, nos entendemos y decidimos, sencillamente, ser. Instantes de una imponente capacidad transformadora que nos marcan porque nos definen y nos hacen libres para siempre. En la vida de nuestra protagonista, esta fotografía clarificadora y mágica se produjo, después de años de dudas íntimas sobre la identidad de género y la sexualidad,...
From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium
This illustrated compendium celebrates LGBTQIA+ history and culture, written by and according to culture icon Justin Elizabeth Sayre! Based on Sayre's five-part show in New York City, From Gay to Z is a humorous collection of the rich legacy of gay culture, told through the letters of the alphabet. From ABBA to addiction, hair and makeup to HIV, Fannie Flagg to fierce, Sayre offers their own perspective on the things that have influenced gay culture today, including iconic figures, historical moments, ongoing issues in the LGBTQIA+ community, and everything in between. As gay culture is always evolving and different for everyone, this book does not serve as a definitive guide—instead, Sayr...
