Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites,
kings, queens, and cross-dressers comprise the fascinating mosaic
of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in "Queer Iberia."
The essays in this volume describe and analyze the sexual diversity
that proliferated during the period between the tenth and the
sixteenth centuries when political hegemony in the region passed
from Muslim to Christian hands.
To show how sexual otherness is most evident at points of cultural
conflict, the contributors use a variety of methodologies and
perspectives and consider source materials that originated in
Castilian, Latin, Arabic, Catalan, and Galician-Portuguese.
Covering topics from the martydom of Pelagius to the exploits of
the transgendered Catalina de Erauso, this volume is the first to
provide a comprehensive historical examination of the relations
among race, gender, sexuality, nation-building, colonialism, and
imperial expansion in medieval and early modern Iberia. Some essays
consider archival evidence of sexual otherness or evaluate the use
of "deviance" as a marker for cultural and racial difference, while
others explore both male and female homoeroticism as
literary-aesthetic discourse or attempt to open up canonical texts
to alternative readings.
Positing a queerness intrinsic to Iberia's historical process and
cultural identity, "Queer Iberia" will challenge the field of
Iberian studies while appealing to scholars of medieval, cultural,
Hispanic, gender, and gay and lesbian studies.
"Contributors." Josiah Blackmore, Linde M. Brocato, Catherine
Brown, Israel Burshatin, Daniel Eisenberg, E. Michael Gerli,
Roberto J. Gonzalez-Casanovas, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Mark D.
Jordan, Sara Lipton, Benjamin Liu, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Michael
Solomon, Louise O. Vasvari, Barbara Weissberger
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