Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• One. Agenda and Canon: Some Necessary Priorities
• Two. Evita PerÓn, Juan JosÉ Sebreli, and Gender
• Three. The Case for Feminine Pornography in Latin America
• Four. Queering the Patriarchy in Hermosillo’s DoÑa Herlinda y su hijo
• Five. Homoerotic Writing and Chicano Authors
• Six. Montes Huidobro’s Exilio and the Representation of Gay Identity
• Seven. The Representation of the Body in the Poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik
• Eight. The Crisis of Masculinity in Argentine Fiction, 1940–1960
• Notes
• References
• Index

About the Author

David William Foster (1940–2020) was Regents’ Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at Arizona State University, where he directed the Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities.

Reviews

"Sexual Textualities is indeed a significant contribution to Latin American queer studies...I commend David William Foster for his tenacious effort to further this field of study, which he has almost single-handedly championed."oCarlos A. Rodriguez-Matos, Associate Professor of Modern Languages,Seton Hall University