Sylvia Molloy is the Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at New York University. She is the author of numerous books including Signs of Borges, also published by Duke University Press.Robert Irwin is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Tulane University.

“Hispanisms and Homosexualities makes a lasting contribution to the fields of Spanish and Latin American literary studies as well as to lesbian and gay studies. Original and provocative, it provides an impressive display of the new scholarship in these areas.”-David RomÁn, University of Southern California “By problematizing both ‘hispanisms’ and ‘homosexualities,’ this collection goes beyond the mere application of queer theory to Hispanic studies; it offers a series of meditations out of which both fields emerge enriched.”-Arnaldo Cruz-MalavÉ, Fordham University

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction / Sylvia Molloy and Robert McKee Irwin ixI. Gender at Loss Interrogating Hermaphroditism in Sixteenth-Century Spain / Israel Burshatin 3Skirting the Question: Lesbians and MarÍa de Zayas / Mary S. Gossy 19The Legend of Jorge Cuesta: The Perils of Alchemy and The Paranoia of Gender / Robert McKee Irwin 29II. Nationalism and Desire Poetry, Revolution, Homophobia: Polemics from the Mexican Revolution / Daniel Balderston 57Nationalism, Male Anxiety, and the Lesbian Body in Puerto Rican Narrative / Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz 76Caribbean Dislocations: Arenas and Ramos Otero in New York / RubÉn RÍos Avila 101III. Queers and/in Performance The Swishing of Gender: Homographetic Marks in Lazarillo de Tormes / B. Sifuentes JÁuregui 123The Poetics of Posing / Sylvia Molloy 141The Signifying Queen: Critical Notes from a Latino Queer / Oscar Montero 161Pedro Zamora's Real World of Counterpublicity: Performing an Ethics of the Self / JosÉ Esteban MuÑoz 175IV. Desire and Representation Sexual Terror: Identity and Fragmentation in Juan Goytisolo's Paisajes despuÉs de la batalla / Brad Epps 197Abjection and Ambiguity: Lesbian Desire in Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas / Emilie Bergmann 229Cuban Homosexualities: On the Beach with NÉstor Almendros and Reinaldo Arenas / Paul Julian Smith 248Virgilio PeÑera: On the Weight of the Insular Flesh / JosÉ Quiroga 269Works Cited 287Contributors 309Index 313

Sylvia Molloy is the Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at New York University. She is the author of numerous books including Signs of Borges, also published by Duke University Press.Robert Irwin is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Tulane University.

“Hispanisms and Homosexualities makes a lasting contribution to the fields of Spanish and Latin American literary studies as well as to lesbian and gay studies. Original and provocative, it provides an impressive display of the new scholarship in these areas.”-David RomÁn, University of Southern California “By problematizing both ‘hispanisms’ and ‘homosexualities,’ this collection goes beyond the mere application of queer theory to Hispanic studies; it offers a series of meditations out of which both fields emerge enriched.”-Arnaldo Cruz-MalavÉ, Fordham University

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction / Sylvia Molloy and Robert McKee Irwin ixI. Gender at Loss Interrogating Hermaphroditism in Sixteenth-Century Spain / Israel Burshatin 3Skirting the Question: Lesbians and MarÍa de Zayas / Mary S. Gossy 19The Legend of Jorge Cuesta: The Perils of Alchemy and The Paranoia of Gender / Robert McKee Irwin 29II. Nationalism and Desire Poetry, Revolution, Homophobia: Polemics from the Mexican Revolution / Daniel Balderston 57Nationalism, Male Anxiety, and the Lesbian Body in Puerto Rican Narrative / Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz 76Caribbean Dislocations: Arenas and Ramos Otero in New York / RubÉn RÍos Avila 101III. Queers and/in Performance The Swishing of Gender: Homographetic Marks in Lazarillo de Tormes / B. Sifuentes JÁuregui 123The Poetics of Posing / Sylvia Molloy 141The Signifying Queen: Critical Notes from a Latino Queer / Oscar Montero 161Pedro Zamora's Real World of Counterpublicity: Performing an Ethics of the Self / JosÉ Esteban MuÑoz 175IV. Desire and Representation Sexual Terror: Identity and Fragmentation in Juan Goytisolo's Paisajes despuÉs de la batalla / Brad Epps 197Abjection and Ambiguity: Lesbian Desire in Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas / Emilie Bergmann 229Cuban Homosexualities: On the Beach with NÉstor Almendros and Reinaldo Arenas / Paul Julian Smith 248Virgilio PeÑera: On the Weight of the Insular Flesh / JosÉ Quiroga 269Works Cited 287Contributors 309Index 313

Sylvia Molloy is the Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at New York University. She is the author of numerous books including Signs of Borges, also published by Duke University Press.Robert Irwin is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Tulane University.

“Hispanisms and Homosexualities makes a lasting contribution to the fields of Spanish and Latin American literary studies as well as to lesbian and gay studies. Original and provocative, it provides an impressive display of the new scholarship in these areas.”-David RomÁn, University of Southern California “By problematizing both ‘hispanisms’ and ‘homosexualities,’ this collection goes beyond the mere application of queer theory to Hispanic studies; it offers a series of meditations out of which both fields emerge enriched.”-Arnaldo Cruz-MalavÉ, Fordham University

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction / Sylvia Molloy and Robert McKee Irwin ixI. Gender at Loss Interrogating Hermaphroditism in Sixteenth-Century Spain / Israel Burshatin 3Skirting the Question: Lesbians and MarÍa de Zayas / Mary S. Gossy 19The Legend of Jorge Cuesta: The Perils of Alchemy and The Paranoia of Gender / Robert McKee Irwin 29II. Nationalism and Desire Poetry, Revolution, Homophobia: Polemics from the Mexican Revolution / Daniel Balderston 57Nationalism, Male Anxiety, and the Lesbian Body in Puerto Rican Narrative / Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz 76Caribbean Dislocations: Arenas and Ramos Otero in New York / RubÉn RÍos Avila 101III. Queers and/in Performance The Swishing of Gender: Homographetic Marks in Lazarillo de Tormes / B. Sifuentes JÁuregui 123The Poetics of Posing / Sylvia Molloy 141The Signifying Queen: Critical Notes from a Latino Queer / Oscar Montero 161Pedro Zamora's Real World of Counterpublicity: Performing an Ethics of the Self / JosÉ Esteban MuÑoz 175IV. Desire and Representation Sexual Terror: Identity and Fragmentation in Juan Goytisolo's Paisajes despuÉs de la batalla / Brad Epps 197Abjection and Ambiguity: Lesbian Desire in Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas / Emilie Bergmann 229Cuban Homosexualities: On the Beach with NÉstor Almendros and Reinaldo Arenas / Paul Julian Smith 248Virgilio PeÑera: On the Weight of the Insular Flesh / JosÉ Quiroga 269Works Cited 287Contributors 309Index 313