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Notes on a Queer (Mexican) Literature: The Case of Ana Clavel
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Dr. Vinodh Venkatesh
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<\/a>Vinodh Venkatesh (Ph.D. UNC Chapel Hill) is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on issues of gender, subjectivity, and the urban space in contemporary Hispanic literature and cinema. He is the author of The Body as Capital: Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction<\/em> (Arizona, 2015) and New Maric\u00f3n Cinema: Outing Latin American Film<\/em> (Texas, 2016). With Mar\u00eda del Carmen Ca\u00f1a Jim\u00e9nez, he co-edited Horacio Castellanos Moya: El diablo en el espejo<\/em> (Albatros, 2016), and a dossier on Latin American cinema for the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies<\/em> (2016).
\nVenkatesh has also edited issues of Romance Notes<\/em> and Letras Hispanas<\/em>. His articles and essays have been published in a variety of international journals and books.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][tabbed_section style=”default” alignment=”left” spacing=”default” tab_color=”Accent-Color”][tab icon_family=”none” title=”Abstract” id=”1499688755916-0701c-47b6″ tab_id=”1513084525043-8″][vc_column_text]\n

The present essay examines the place of Ana Clavel in critical studies on contemporary Mexican fiction. Instead of situating her production vis-\u00e0-vis female contemporaries in what has been labeled the Boom Femenino<\/em>, I argue that Clavel\u2019s novels embody the ethos of a queer literature. A queer literature unpacks, decenters, and disobeys norms of gender, sex, and sexuality, and favors the posing of questions versus the providing of neatly packaged answers. Moving away from the subject, it mobilizes these same actions towards the communal and the national. Queer literature moves against the conventions of narrative; it breaks through the limits of the textual to render insufficient the power of the word. By reading the author\u2019s meditation on sex, gender, and sexuality (especially as they relate to the urban space in Cuerpo n\u00e1ufrago<\/em>), the essay furthers that Clavel\u2019s fiction may best be understood within a genealogy of queer Mexican texts. <\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/tab][tab icon_family=”none” title=”iMex N\u00b013 Gender and Sexuality” tab_id=”1513084525200-1″ id=”1513086651055-1″][vc_column_text]\n

Oswaldo Estrada - Editorial<\/span><\/i><\/a>\nAna Clavel - Est\u00edmulo: Dos cuerpos del deseo <\/span><\/i><\/a>\nAdriana Gonz\u00e1lez Mateos - Est\u00edmulo: Family Values <\/span><\/i><\/a>\nCristina Rivera Garza - Est\u00edmulo: The Date<\/span><\/i><\/a>\nIgnacio Ruiz P\u00e9rez - Cuerpo, sexualidad y usos amorosos<\/span><\/i><\/a>\nTamara R. Williams - Todo lo perdido regresa travestido<\/span><\/i><\/a>\nAlejandra M\u00e1rquez - Traces of Lesbianism<\/span><\/i><\/a>\nChristian Gr\u00fcnnagel - G\u00e9nero(s) y sadomasoquismo<\/span><\/i><\/a>\nAnca Koczkas - L\u00edmites del deseo: incesto y familia<\/span><\/i><\/a>\nAdrienne Erazo - The Politics of Female Identity<\/span><\/i><\/a>\nEtna \u00c1valos - Discapacidad y construcciones de g\u00e9nero<\/span><\/i><\/a>\nCarmen Patricia Tovar - En busca de una nueva masculinidad<\/span><\/i><\/a>\nVinodh Venkatesh - Notes on a Queer (Mexican) Literature<\/span><\/i><\/a>\nRese\u00f1as<\/span><\/i><\/a>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/tab][\/tabbed_section][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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