Queer Exposures (eBook)

Sexuality and Photography in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction and Poetry

Ryan Long (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
424 Seiten
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-8814-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) stands out among recent Latin American writers because of his unique combination of critical acclaim, popularity, and literary significance. Queer Exposures analyzes two central but understudied topics in Bolaño’s fiction and poetry: sexuality and photography. Moving beyond a consideration of how his texts represent these topics, Ryan F. Long demonstrates that, when considered in tandem, they form the basis for a new innovative and critical approach. Emphasizing the processes of exposure associated with photography and sexuality, especially queer sexuality, provides readers and scholars with a versatile method for comprehending Bolaño’s constellation of texts. With close readings of a broad range of texts, from poetry written just after his arrival in Spain in the late 1970s to his posthumously published novels, Queer Exposures concludes that an emphasis on sexuality and photography is essential for understanding how Bolaño’s texts function in dialogue with one another to elucidate and critique the interrelations of writing, visual representation, and power.

Autor

Ryan F. Long is associate professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on the politics of literary and visual representation in Mexico and Latin America. Long is the author of Fictions of Totality: The Mexican Novel, 1968, and the National-Popular State.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.4.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Illuminations
• Verlagsort: PIttsburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 2666 • Estrella Distante • fiction of Roberto Bolaño • Lasa • Los detectives salvajes • Los perros románticos • poetry of Roberto Bolaño • queer Latinx writing • queer scholarship • Roberto Bolaño • Spanish language queer literature • University of Maryland faculty • Woes of the True Policeman
• ISBN-10: 0-8229-8814-3 / 0822988143
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8814-4 / 9780822988144