Table of Contents
From the margins to the mainstream: lesbian characters in Spanish fiction (1964-79) / Wilfredo Hernâandez -- Carme Riera: (un)covering the lesbian subject or simulation of coming out? / Inmaculada Pertusa -- Tomboy tantrums and queer infatuations: reading lesbianism in Magali Garcâia Ramis's Felices dâias, tâio Sergio / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes -- Coming-out stories and the politics of identity in the narrative of Terri de la Peäna / Salvador C. Fernâandez -- Silent pleasures and pleasures of silence: Ana Marâia Moix's "Las virtudes peligrosas" / Nancy Vosburg -- Reading, writing, and the love that dares not speak its name: eloquent silences in Ana Marâia Moix's Julia / Gema Pâerez-Sâanchez -- Outside the castle walls: beyond lesbian counterplotting in Cristina Peri Rossi's Desastres intimos / Janis Breckenridge -- "He made me a hole!" Gender bending, sexual desire, and the representation of sexual violence / Regina M. Buccola -- Bomberas on stage: Carmelita Tropicana speaking in tongues against history, madness, fate, and the state / Karina Lissette Cespedes -- Empowering the feminine/feminist/lesbian subject through the lens: the representation of women in Marâia Luisa Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas / Claudia Andrâe -- The lesbian family in Cristina Peri Rossi's "The witness": a study in utopia and infiltration / Sara E. Cooper -- Chicana lesbianism and the multigenre text / Elisa A. Garza -- Interracial lesbian erotics in early modern Spain: Catalina de Erauso and Elena/o de Câespedes / Sherry Velasco -- Violence, desire, and transformative remembering in Emma Pâerez's Gulf dreams / Lourdes Torres -- Learning to live without black familia: Cherrâie Moraga's nationalist articulations / Christina Sharpe -- Shameless histories: Chicana lesbian fictions talking race/talking sex / Catriâona Rueda Esquibel.