Avowal of Difference

Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui is Associate Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature: Genders Share Flesh.

"...although the book is academically rigorous the writing is clear and the whole is vivid and thought provoking." — James Morgan Brown Review"The Avowal of Difference is a delightful critical encounter between queer criticism and Latino American literature and culture. I wish I had written it myself." — Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, author of Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Written Through a BodyPart 1. Unwriting the Self 1. Modernismo, Masochism and Queer Potential in Nervo’s El bachiller2. Queer Losses in Barbachano Ponce’s El diario de José Toledo3. Adonis’s Silence: Textual Queerness in Zapata’s El vampiro de la colonia RomaPart 2. Interventions 4. Epistemerotics: Puig, Queer Subjects, and Writing Desire 5. La Manuela’s Return: Transvestism/Identifiction/the Abject in Lemebel’s Loco afánPart 3. The Body Politic 6. Homosexuality, Disavowal, and Pedagogy in Vargas Llosa’s Los cachorros7. Sadomasochism in Paradiso: Bound Narratives and Pleasure 8. On the Homo-Baroque: Queering Sarduy’s Baroque GenealogiesPart 4. Queer Latina/o Narratives 9. Queer Latinidad: Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets and Díaz’s Drown10. Traveling North, Translating Queerness: Rivera-Valdés and the Trouble with DisciplineNotesReferencesIndex