Laws of Desire: Questions of Homosexuality in Spanish Writing and Film 1960-1990

by Paul Julian Smith

Book Overview

Homosexuality has been treated only in a fragmentary way in Hispanic studies, and this is the first full-length study of the subject in contemporary Spanish writing and film. Introducing the book with a brief account of some medical, legal, and polemical texts, Paul Julian Smith, an established authority on Hispanic studies, charts the varying representations of the feminist or gay "self" in autobiographical texts by Chacel, Goytisolo, and Terenci...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198122756
• ISBN13: 9780198122753
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"