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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814487603321

Autore

Garlinger Patrick Paul

Titolo

Confessions of the letter closet : epistolary fiction and queer desire in modern Spain / / Patrick Paul Garlinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8166-9681-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

863/.609353

Soggetti

Epistolary fiction, Spanish - History and criticism

Spanish fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Homosexuality in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Archival resurrections of queer desire in Miguel de Unamuno -- Specters of lesbian desire: love letters and queer readers in Carmen Martin Gaite -- The ethics of outing in Luis Antonio de Villena -- A witness to mourning: memory and testimony in Carme Riera -- Pleasurable insurrections: sexual liberation and epistolary anarchy -- E-mail, AIDS, and virtual sexuality in Lluis Fernandez.

Sommario/riassunto

By the beginning of the twentieth century, epistolary novels in Spain increasingly grappled with homoerotic and homosexual desire, treating it as a secret communicated through private letters. Patrick Paul Garlinger reveals how the confidential model persists in fictional letter writing from the early twentieth century to the present, framing expressions of queer desire in confessional terms: secrecy, guilt, morality, and shame.