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La Novela Mexicana De Temática Homosexual: Defensa De Curso, Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio
La Novela Mexicana De Temática Homosexual: Defensa De Curso, Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio
Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio, Ph.D
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Editors' Note: The Name Of Las Cosas, LáZaro Lima, Felice Picano
Editors' Note: The Name Of Las Cosas, LáZaro Lima, Felice Picano
Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications
Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing seeks to provide a timely and representative archive of queer Latino literary and cultural memory in order to enact a more inclusive "American" literary canon that can apprehend the present and the future of queer Latino literary practice. We have assembled a diverse and representative sample of contemporary queer Latino writing in order to provide a source of pleasure for readers as well as a resource for instructors and students who have too often been deprived of this crucial though underanalyzed component of national literary culture.
Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En Sanctuary Y Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada, Cesar Valverde
Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En Sanctuary Y Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada, Cesar Valverde
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This essay analyzes how two novels, William Faulkner’s Sanctuary and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, present masculine models that juxtapose power and violence during times of social crisis. Both novels present violent masculinities that overcome peaceful masculinities, in conflicts that result in murders and rapes; but rather than acuse the individuals responsible for the violent acts, the texts point out the social mechanisms that inexorably move the authors of the crimes. In both works we also see violence against women and resulting public deaths of men wrongly accused, which happen due to an inability to adapt to …