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

这个博士项目将以西班牙裔美国人的文学背景为例，通过研究所谓的女同性恋文学的概念化，专注于在文化领域内构建同性恋女性身份。“女同性恋文学”这个词的存在说明，同性恋女性作家的作品在所谓的“中立”文学主流面前是如何被双重“标记”的：出版商、评论家或文学历史学家很少提出“直男”文学类别。这个项目将研究文学是如何被标记为“他者”的，以及这种差异性对被标记为属于这一类别的作品和作者的影响。我将采取一种交叉的方法，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。我将检视三位作家的个案研究，她们的作品可归类为“女同性恋文学”：尤兰达·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·埃尔南德斯(多米尼加共和国，1977-)，她们都是同时代的加勒比拉美裔女性作家，在21世纪出版散文小说。

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.