Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American, and Spanish Culture

by Susana Chavez-Silverman (Editor), Librada Hernandez (Editor)

In this dynamic collection of essays, many leading literary scholars trace gay and lesbian themes in Latin American, Hispanic, and U.S. Latino literary and cultural texts. Reading and Writing the Ambiente is consciously ambitious and far-ranging, historically as well as geographically. It includes discussions of texts from as early as the seventeenth century to writings of the late twentieth century.
     Reading and Writing the Ambiente also underscores the ways in which lesbian and gay self-representation in Hispanic texts differs from representations in Anglo-American texts. The contributors demonstrate that—unlike the emphasis on the individual in Anglo- American sexual identity—Latino, Spanish, and Latin American sexual identity is produced in the surrounding culture and community, in the ambiente. As one of the first collections of its kind, Reading and Writing the Ambiente is expressive of the next wave of gay Hispanic and Latin scholarship.

376 pages, Paperback

First published October 30, 2000

Reviews

[Josue Rodriguez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Academic for sure and mostly focused on SPAIN and ARGENTINA.
The hunt for indigenous latine americas queer academia continues.