Bodies and Biases

The sexual economy of Miguel de Cervantes, Robert ter Horst; The sinful scene: Transgression in seventeenth-century Spanish drama (1625-1685), Javier Aparicio Maydeu; Desire and decorum in the twentieth-century Colombian novel, J. Eduardo Jaramillo Zuluaga; Representations of family and sexuality in Brazilian cultural discourse, Roberto Reis; The body in context: Don Quijote and Don Juan, James A. Parr; Popular culture and gender/genre construction in Mexican Bolero by Angeles Mastretta, Salvador A. Oropesa; Sexing the bildungsroman: Las edades de Lulu, pornography, and the pleasure principle, Silvia Bermudez; El diario de Jose Toledo: A queer space in the world of Mexican letters, Marina Perez de Mendiola; Camilo's closet: Sexual camouflage in Denevi's Rosaura a las diez, Herbert J. Brand; Monobodies, antibodies, and the body politic: Sara Levi Calderon's Dos mujeres, Claudia Schaefer-Rodriguez; Not so lonely: A butch-femme reading of Cristina Peri-Rossi's Solitario de amor, Mary S. Gossy; The case for feminine pornography in Latin America, David William Foster; The pornographic subject of Los Borbones en pelota, Lou Charnon-Deutsch; Codifying homosexuality as grotesque: The writings of Virgilio Pinera Ana Garcia Chichester; Eroticism and homoeroticism in Martin Fierro, Gustavo Geirola; Intricacies of Brazilian gayness: A cross-cultural and cross-temporal approach, Dario Borim Jr; The ecstasy of disease: Mysticism, metaphor, and aids in Las virtudes del pajaro solitario, Brad Epps; Afterword Naomi Lindstrom.