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

自20世纪初以来，在西班牙，疾病和古怪一直紧密地交织在一起(Clinson和Vázquez Garcia，2007)。病态和酷儿也在历史上被规范性话语和意识形态边缘化(Illich，1974；福柯，1990)。近年来，这两个概念(疾病、同性恋)占据了西方世界媒体的聚光灯下，围绕心理健康与歧视、变性人权利以及新冠肺炎大爆炸展开了许多高调辩论。尽管如此，它们之间的联系却鲜有人关注，尤其是在西班牙背景下。因此，这项研究将考察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，并构建和执行他们的身份。对同性恋个体在最近的西班牙背景下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、谈判和阐明以抵制歧视的(巴特勒，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(里士满·埃利斯，1997年；维拉塞卡，2003年)。生活写作提供了一种富有成效但未得到充分利用的资源，用于研究未被充分代表的社区，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联系在一起的体裁(亨德森，2019)。这将是此类研究的第一次。

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.