Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the R

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Queer Iberia by Josiah Blackmore, Gregory S. Hutcheson Offers a collection of essays exploring ideologies and discourses that center on sexual otherness in medieval Iberian cultures, Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers that comprise the mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Iberias 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 Notes First comprehensive historical examination of the relations among race, gender, sexuality, nation building, colonialism, and imperial expansion in medieval and early modern Iberia Back Cover "An outstanding collection. The pieces are sharp, bold, well argued, and witty; the whole project is-above all-crucial to the much-needed expansion of the fields of Hispanic, postcolonial, and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies."-Carolyn Dinshaw, author ofChaucers Sexual PoeticsandGetting Medieval Author Biography Josiah Blackmore is Assistant Professor of Portuguese at the University of Toronto.Gregory S. Hutcheson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Table of Contents Acknowledgments viiIntroduction / Gregory S. Hutcheson and Josiah Blackmore 1I. Queering Iberia Saint Pelagius, Ephebe and Martyr / Mark D. Jordan 23"Affined to love the Moor": Sexual Misalliance and Cultural Mixing in the Cantigas descarnho e de mal dizer / Benjamin Liu 48Queer Representation in the Arçipreste de Talavera, or, The Maldezir de mugeres Is a Drag / Catherine Brown 73II. Iberian Masculinities "Tanquam effeminatum": Pedro II of Aragon and the Gendering of Heresy in the Albigensian Crusade / Sara Lipton 107The Semiotics of Phallic Aggression and Anal Penetration as Male Agonistic Ritual in the Libro de buen amor / Louise O. Vasvári 130Male Bonding as Cultural Construction in Alfonso X, Ramon Llull, and Juan Manuel: Homosocial Friendship in Medieval Iberia / Roberto J. González-Casanovas 157III. Sources of Sodom The Poets of Sodom / Josiah Blackmore 195Desperately Seeking Sodom: Queerness in the Chronicles of Alvaro de Luna / Gregory S. Hutcheson 222Juan Ruizs Heterosexual "Good Love" / Daniel Eisenberg 250IV. Normativity and Nationhood Fictions of Infection: Diseasing the Sexual Other in Francesc Eiximeniss Lo llibre de les dones / Michael Soloman 277"!A tierra, puto!": Alfonso de Palencias Discourse of Effeminacy / Barbara Weissberger 291"Tened por espejo su fin": Mapping Gender and Sex in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Spain / Linde M. Brocato 325V. The Body and the State Dismembering the Body Politic: Vile Bodies and Sexual Underworlds in Celestina / E. Michael Gerli 369From Convent to Battlefield: Cross-Dressing and Gender the Self in the New World of Imperial Spain / Mary Elizabeth Perry 394Written on the Body: Slave or Hermaphrodite in Sixteenth-Century Spain / Israel Burshatin 420Index 457Contributors 475 Review An outstanding collection. The pieces are sharp, bold, well argued, and witty; the whole project is-above all-crucial to the much-needed expansion of the fields of Hispanic, postcolonial, and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies.Q-Carolyn Dinshaw, author of Chaucers Sexual Poetics and Getting Medieval, also published by Duke University Press. 0B0BQIn this provocativ e volume, an impressive collection of scholars, undaunted by a tradition of more solemn readings, train the powerful double lens of cultural and sexual difference on the medieval and early modern Iberian world, which turns out to be much more akin to0Bour own than we might have suspected.Q-Mary Gaylord, Harvard University0BQ Promotional First comprehensive historical examination of the relations among race, gender, sexuality, nation building, colonialism, and imperial expansion in medieval and early modern Iberia Review Quote "In this provocative volume, an impressive collection of scholars, undaunted by a tradition of more solemn readings, train the powerful double lens of cultural and sexual difference on the medieval and early modern Iberian world, which turns out to be much more akin to our own than we might have suspected."-Mary Gaylord, Harvard University Promotional "Headline" First comprehensive historical examination of the relations among race, gender, sexuality, nation building, colonialism, and imperial expansion in medieval and early modern Iberia Details ISBN0822323494 Short Title QUEER IBERIA Publisher Duke University Press Series Series Q Language English ISBN-10 0822323494 ISBN-13 9780822323495 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1999 Author Gregory S. Hutcheson Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Birth 1959 Edited by Gregory S. Hutcheson DOI 10.1604/9780822323495 UK Release Date 1999-08-12 AU Release Date 1999-08-12 NZ Release Date 1999-08-12 US Release Date 1999-08-12 Pages 488 Publication Date 1999-08-12 DEWEY 306.7660946 Illustrations 3 illustrations, 1 table Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:161665565;

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