The Legend of Jorge Cuesta: The Perils of Alchemy and the Paranoia of Gender

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction ix
5. I. GENDER AT LOSS
6. Interrogating Hermaphroditism in Sixteenth-Century Spain 3
7. Skirting the Question: Lesbians and Maria de Zayas 19
8. The Legend of Jorge Cuesta: The Perils of Alchemy and the Paranoia of Gender 29
9. II. NATIONALISM AND DESIRE
10. Poetry, Revolution, Homophobia: Polemics from the Mexican Revolution 57
11. Nationalism, Male Anxiety, and the Lesbian Body in Puerto Rican Narrative 76
12. Caribbean Dislocations: Arenas and Ramos Otero in New York 101
13. III. QUEERS AND / IN PERFORMANCE
14. The Swishing of Gender: Homographetic Marks in Lazarillo de Tormes 123
15. The Politics of Posing 141
16. The Signifying Queen: Critical Notes from a Latino Queer 161
17. Pedro Zamora's Real World of Counterpublicity: Performing an Ethics of the Self 175
18. IV. DESIRE AND REPRESENTATION
19. Sexual Terror: Identity and Fragmentation in Juan Goytisolo's Paisajes despues de la batalla 197
20. Abjection and Ambiguity: Lesbian Desire in Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas 229
21. Cuban Homosexualities: On the Beach with Nestor Almendros and Reinaldo Arenas 248
22. Virgilio Piñera: On the Weight of the Insular Flesh 269
23. Works Cited 287
24. Contributors 309
25. Index 313