'Latin American Lesbian Literature'? Interrogating the Marginalisation of Texts

“拉丁美洲女同性恋文学”？

• 批准号: 2606643
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2606643
• 关键词: Latin; American; Lesbian; Literature; Interrogating

This doctoral project will focus on the construction of queer womanhood within the cultural sphere by examining the conceptualisation of so-called 'lesbian literature', taking examples from a Spanish American literary context. The existence of the term 'lesbian literature' speaks to how the output of queer women writers is doubly 'marked' against a supposedly 'neutral' literary mainstream: rarely has a 'straight male' literary category been proposed by publishers, critics or literary historians. This project will examine how this marking of literature as 'other' occurs, along with the ramifications of this otherness for works and authors marked as belonging to this category. I will take an intersectional approach, considering the overlap of categorisations of 'female' and 'queer', while also accounting forfactors such as race, class, and geographical origin. I will examine case studies of three authors whose works may be classed as 'lesbian literature': Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro (Puerto Rico, 1970-), Ena Lucia Portela (Cuba, 1972-) and Rita Indiana Hernández (Dominican Republic, 1977-), all female Hispanic Caribbean writers from the same generation, publishing prose fiction in the twenty-first century.

这个博士项目将通过考察所谓的“女同性恋文学”的概念化，以西班牙裔美国文学背景为例，重点关注文化领域内酷儿女性的建构。“女同性恋文学”一词的存在说明了酷儿女作家的作品是如何被双重“标记”在所谓的“中性”文学主流上的：出版商、评论家或文学史学家很少提出“直男”文学类别。这个项目将研究文学作为“他者”的标记是如何发生的，以及这种他者性对属于这一类别的作品和作者的影响。我将采用交叉的方法，考虑到“女性”和“酷儿”的分类重叠，同时也考虑到种族、阶级和地理来源等因素。我将研究三位作家的案例研究，他们的作品可能被归类为“女同性恋文学”：约兰达·阿罗约·皮萨罗（波多黎各，1970-），埃娜·露西亚·波特拉（古巴，1972-）和丽塔·印第安纳Hernández（多米尼加共和国，1977-），她们都是同一代的拉美裔加勒比女性作家，在21世纪出版散文小说。