Introduction: Towards an (Even More) Queer Hispanism

Abstract

This volume is subdivided into four main sections. The first one collects articles selected out of the submissions received in response to our call for papers; the second one—a series of short “notes” by scholars whom we, as the editors, invited to take part in the project, convinced that their contributions would be valuable for the issue; the third one offers a possibility to abandon for a while the strictly academic considerations in order to discover, along with Elena Madrigal, some of the literary nooks of the lesbian desire; to taste three examples of deliberately “twisted” Latin American chronicles: two of them written in Spanglish by Susana Chávez-Silverman and one in a campy style by Alejandro Modarelli; and finally to take a trip, guided by Javier Sáez, through the imaginary underground LGTBQ stations in the city of Madrid, conceived as a way of paying tribute to the figures that—in different times and places—made a significant contribution to the dissident communities of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans*, intersex, and queer people. On that score, this map could have equally well been spread out in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile or Mexico City: its goal is to remind (us) about some passages and some fights that concern all of us, regardless of our particular location. The last part of the issue gathers several reviews of books on topics related to gender and sexuality studies in Spain and Latin America, offering a survey of the recent publications.