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oapen-20.500.12657-526182023-07-11T09:18:21Z Queer Rebels Smuga, Łukasz Smuga, Łukasz Poniatowska, Patrycja Literature: history and criticism Gay and Lesbian studies / LGBTQ studies European history bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSK Gay & Lesbian studies bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history Queer Rebels is a study of gay narrative writings published in Spain at the turn of the 20th century. The book scrutinises the ways in which the literary production of contemporary Spanish gay authors – José Luis de Juan, Luis G. Martín, Juan Gil-Albert, Juan Goytisolo, Eduardo Mendicutti, Luis Antonio de Villena and Álvaro Pombo – engages with homophobic and homophile discourses, as well as with the vernacular and international literary legacy. The first part revolves around the metaphor of a rebellious scribe who queers literary tradition by clandestinely weaving changes into copies of the books he makes. This subversive writing act, named ‘Mazuf’s gesture’ after the protagonist of José Luis de Juan’s This Breathing World (1999), is examined in four highly intertextual works by other writers. The second part of the book explores Luis Antonio de Villena and Álvaro Pombo, who in their different ways seek to coin their own definitions of homosexual experience in opposition both to the homophobic discourses of the past and to the homonormative regimes of the commercialised and trivialised gay culture of today. In their novels, ‘Mazuf’s gesture’ involves playing a sophisticated queer game with readers and their expectations. 2022-01-28T11:21:29Z 2022-01-28T11:21:29Z 2022 book ONIX_20220128_9781000544343_12 9781000544343 9781032156453 9781003245124 9781032211572 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52618 eng Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000544343.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003245124 10.4324/9781003245124 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb Uniwersytet Wrocławski 9781000544343 9781032156453 9781003245124 9781032211572 Routledge 244 open access
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Queer Rebels is a study of gay narrative writings published in Spain at the turn of the 20th century. The book scrutinises the ways in which the literary production of contemporary Spanish gay authors – José Luis de Juan, Luis G. Martín, Juan Gil-Albert, Juan Goytisolo, Eduardo Mendicutti, Luis Antonio de Villena and Álvaro Pombo – engages with homophobic and homophile discourses, as well as with the vernacular and international literary legacy. The first part revolves around the metaphor of a rebellious scribe who queers literary tradition by clandestinely weaving changes into copies of the books he makes. This subversive writing act, named ‘Mazuf’s gesture’ after the protagonist of José Luis de Juan’s This Breathing World (1999), is examined in four highly intertextual works by other writers. The second part of the book explores Luis Antonio de Villena and Álvaro Pombo, who in their different ways seek to coin their own definitions of homosexual experience in opposition both to the homophobic discourses of the past and to the homonormative regimes of the commercialised and trivialised gay culture of today. In their novels, ‘Mazuf’s gesture’ involves playing a sophisticated queer game with readers and their expectations.
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