"By problematizing both 'hispanisms' and 'homosexualities,' this collection goes beyond the mere application of queer theory to Hispanic studies; it offers a series of meditations out of which both fields emerge enriched."--Arnaldo Cruz-Malave, Fordham University

Acknowledgments viiIntroduction / Sylvia Molloy and Robert McKee Irwin ixI. Gender at LossInterrogating Hermaphroditism in Sixteenth-Century Spain / Israel Burshatin 3Skirting the Question: Lesbians and María de Zayas / Mary S. Gossy 19The Legend of Jorge Cuesta: The Perils of Alchemy and The Paranoia of Gender / Robert McKee Irwin 29II. Nationalism and DesirePoetry, Revolution, Homophobia: Polemics from the Mexican Revolution / Daniel Balderston 57Nationalism, Male Anxiety, and the Lesbian Body in Puerto Rican Narrative / Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz 76Caribbean Dislocations: Arenas and Ramos Otero in New York / Rubén Ríos Avila 101III. Queers and/in PerformanceThe Swishing of Gender: Homographetic Marks in Lazarillo de Tormes / B. Sifuentes Jáuregui 123The Poetics of Posing / Sylvia Molloy 141The Signifying Queen: Critical Notes from a Latino Queer / Oscar Montero 161Pedro Zamora's Real World of Counterpublicity: Performing an Ethics of the Self / José Esteban Muñoz 175IV. Desire and RepresentationSexual Terror: Identity and Fragmentation in Juan Goytisolo's Paisajes después de la batalla / Brad Epps 197Abjection and Ambiguity: Lesbian Desire in Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas / Emilie Bergmann 229Cuban Homosexualities: On the Beach with Néstor Almendros and Reinaldo Arenas / Paul Julian Smith 248Virgilio Peñera: On the Weight of the Insular Flesh / José Quiroga 269Works Cited 287Contributors 309Index 313