Bodies beyond Labels

Daniel Holcombe is an associate professor of Spanish at Georgia College & State University. Frederick A. de Armas is Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago..

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part I. Expressions of Joy in Light and Shadow: Pagan Myth and Christian Gazes

1. Forging Ganymede in Winckelmann’s History of the Art of Antiquity and Lope de Vega’s El castigo sin venganza
Frederick A. de Armas

2. Ganymede, Narcissus, and the Joys of Teasing the Pagan in Tirso de Molina’s Religious La mejor espigadera (1614)
Felipe E. Rojas

Part II. Homoeroticism as Joyous Loving

3. Secret Intimacies: Eternal Homoeroticism in Cervantes’s El curioso impertinente
Daniel Holcombe

4. Queer Raptures Past and Present: Saint Sebastian and the Homoerotics of Martyrdom in Early Modern Spain and Italy
José R. Cartagena-Calderón

5. El casamiento entre dos damas by Pedro de Navarro: Finding the Joys of Non-Heteronormativity in the Shadows of an Early Modern Spanish Romance
Pablo Restrepo Gautier

Part III. Celebrating Joyful Non-Labelled Bodies: Defying Fixed Identities

6. Joyful Visual Reinterpretations of Cervantes’s Dulcinea at the Graphic Humour Museum That Bears Her Name
María José Domínguez

7. Gardens of Gendered Joy in Tirso de Molina’s El vergonzoso en palacio (1621)
Lizette Arellano

Part IV. Joys of Heaven and Earth

8. The Laugh of the Tenth Muse
Emilie Bergmann

9. “Special Friendships” in the Convent
Bárbara Mujica

10. Trans-figura-d in Joy: The Sensuality of Celestial Feasts in the Pageants of Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534)
Jessica A. Boon

Part V. Finding Joy in Unexpected Places: Geographies of Sexual Exploration

11. Early Global Sexualities: Antonio Pigafetta and Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Juan Pablo Gil-Oslé

12. (Dis)locations of Sodomy in Early Modern Spain
Gregory S. Hutcheson

Contributors
Index