Description

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Since the advent of literature, images of homosexuality have served as metaphors for the unnamable, the abnormal, and that which lies outside the Nation. Along with a consideration of the nature and boundaries of gay literature, this book constitutes a pioneering attempt to systematize a history of gay literature in Argentina. The author proposes the formation of a gay tradition that works to resist hegemonic discourses and contributes to the fight to expand civil rights.

About the Author

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Adrián Melo is an Argentinean researcher and professor of sociology and philosophy. He holds a doctorate in social sciences and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Buenos Aires. He is the author of El amor de los muchachos: homosexualidad y literatura and the co-author of Obsesiones y fantasmas de la Argentina: El antisemitismo, Evita, los desaparecidos y Malvinas en la ficción literaria, among other books.