Illness and queerness in Spain: Spanish life-writing from 1936 to the present

自二十世纪初以来，疾病和酷儿在西班牙一直紧密地交织在一起（Cleminson和Vázquez Garcia， 2007）。由于规范性话语和意识形态，病患和酷儿人群在历史上也被社会边缘化（伊里奇，1974；福柯，1990）。近年来，这两个概念（疾病、酷儿）在西方世界占据了媒体的聚光灯，围绕心理健康和歧视、跨性别者权利和COVID-19大流行进行了许多备受瞩目的辩论。然而，他们之间的联系很少受到关注，尤其是在西班牙语境中。因此，本研究将探讨酷儿作家如何使用生活写作作为一种手段来抵制这些话语，并构建和表现他们的身份。对近期西班牙背景下酷儿个体经历的批判性研究将对知识做出重要而及时的贡献，揭示这些身份是如何被执行、协商和表达以抵抗歧视的（Butler, 1990）。它还将分析在面对恐同的社会话语和严重疾病时，生活写作如何成为一种解放实践（Richmond Ellis, 1997; Vilaseca, 2003）。生活写作为研究代表性不足的社区提供了一种富有成效但未得到充分利用的资源，因为它是一种传统上与隐私、保密、女性气质和个人叙事概念相关的类型（Henderson, 2019）。这将是同类研究中的首次。

Illness and queerness have been strongly intertwined since the beginning of the twentieth century in Spain (Cleminson and Vázquez Garcia, 2007). Ill and queer people have also been historically marginalised in society by normative discourses and ideologies (Illich, 1974; Foucault, 1990). These two notions (illness, queerness) have occupied the media spotlight in the Western world in recent years, with many high-profile debates around mental health and discrimination, transgender rights, and the COVID-19 pandemic.Nonetheless, their connection has received little attention, particularly in the Spanish context. This study will therefore examine how queer authors use life-writing as a means to resist these discourses and to construct and perform their identities. A critical study of the experiences of queer individuals in the recent Spanish context will make an important and timely contribution to knowledge, shedding light on how such identities are performed, negotiated, and articulated to resist discrimination (Butler, 1990). It will also analyse how life-writing becomes an emancipatory practice in the face of homophobic social discourse and serious illness (Richmond Ellis, 1997; Vilaseca, 2003). Life-writing provides a fruitful, yet under-utilised, resource by which to study underrepresented communities, as it is a genre traditionally associated with notions of privacy, secrecy, femininity, and personal narrative (Henderson, 2019). This will be the first studyof its kind.