Dieter Ingenschay (Ed.) (2018). Eventos del deseo. Sexualidades minoritarias en las culturas/literaturas de España y Latinoamérica a finales del siglo XX, Bibliotheca Ibero-americana. 271 páginas
Abstract
The title ''Events of desire. Minority sexualities in the cultures / literatures of Spain and Latin America at the end of the 20th century” is the result of a discussion convened in Berlin in July 2014, in which people dedicated to research from very diverse origins gathered. The main objective was to work on the roles and functions of minority sexualities in a period in which decisive socio-cultural changes took place and which deserved to be discussed in detail. The group combination of a series of voices of varied origin constitutes, according to the editor of the book Dieter Ingenschay, the most interesting method to analyze a whole series of political cartographies after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the dictatorships, which allowed , only initially, the beginning of the transitions.
The contributions in this volume present a set of heterogeneous and exhaustive stories whose main object of study is those "marginalized" sexualities that were echoed at the end of the last century and the beginning of the new millennium. Through a total of sixteen chapters, a considerable variety of contexts, subjectivities and positions are expressed, a continuous convergence between arts, media, symbolic practices and critical theories that dialogue with each other and throb with political debates, social concerns and cultural creations to inform us of the tensions that existed in certain events of desire (especially homosexual). In general, these articles address the paradoxical relationship between resistance and dissolution that the allied forces experienced while a certain representation proliferated in literature and visual culture. However, they also provide keys to understanding that the rearticulation and reconfiguration of this sexual radicality, expressed and linked to biological or symbolic non-reproduction.
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