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

西班牙的疾病和酷儿：1936 年至今的西班牙生活写作

• 批准号: 2746427
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2746427
• 关键词: Illness; queerness; Spain; Spanish; life

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.

自世纪初以来，疾病和同性恋在西班牙一直紧密交织在一起（Cleminson和Vázquez Garcia，2007年）。在历史上，病态和同性恋者也被规范性话语和意识形态边缘化（Illich，1974; Foucault，1990）。近年来，这两个概念（疾病、酷儿）占据了西方世界媒体的聚光灯，围绕心理健康和歧视、跨性别者权利以及COVID-19大流行展开了许多备受瞩目的辩论。然而，它们之间的联系却很少受到关注，尤其是在西班牙。因此，本研究将探讨酷儿作家如何以生命书写来抗拒这些话语，建构和表现自己的身份。在最近的西班牙背景下，对酷儿个体的经历进行批判性研究将对知识做出重要而及时的贡献，揭示这种身份是如何被执行的，谈判，以及如何表达以抵制歧视（巴特勒，1990）。它还将分析如何生活写作成为一个解放的做法，面对同性恋恐惧症的社会话语和严重的疾病（里士满埃利斯，1997年;维拉塞卡，2003年）。生活写作提供了一个富有成效的，但未充分利用的资源，通过它来研究代表性不足的社区，因为它是一种传统上与隐私，秘密，女性气质和个人叙事概念相关的体裁（亨德森，2019）。这将是同类研究中的第一个。