Queer Theory in Latin America Reading Lists

Reading lists from other institutions:

ALA-Latino

http://www.ala.org/rt/sites/ala.org.rt/files/content/professionaltools/Latina%20Latino%20GLBT%20biblio.pdf

Thought and Culture Journal:

https://search.lib.asu.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_crossref10.5860%2FCHOICE.52-0047&context=PC&vid=01ASU&lang=en_US&search_scope=Everything&adaptor=primo_central_multiple_fe&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,LGBT%20Thought%20and%20Culture%5C&sortby=rank&offset=0

Mostly Mexico:

Recommended Dissertations:

Jones, Ryan. "Estamos en todas partes:" Male Homosexuality, Nation, and Modernity in Twentieth Century Mexico. Dissertation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012.

Russo, Anahi. Rethinking Intimacy: Love, Friendship and Sexuality in Three Generations of Queer Women in Mexico City (1960-2010). Dissertation: Rutgers University, 2012.

Thing, James. Entre maricones, machos, y gays: globalization and the construction of sexual identities among queer Mexicanos. Dissertation: University of Southern California, 2009.

Recommended Books

Arnal, Kike. Bordered Lives: Transgender Portraits from Mexico. New Press, 2014.
HQ 77.95 .M6 .A76 2014eb Online ACCESS

Ingram, Gordon Brent, Anne-Marie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter, eds. Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance. Bay Press, 1997.
Includes “Gay Male Places of Mexico City” by Alvaro Sanchez-Crispin and Alvaro Lopez-Lopez.
HQ 76.25 .Q395 1997 HAYDEN STACKS

Medina, Cuauhtémoc and Susana Vargas. Más "mujercitos!": ¿qué pasa? ¿ya nadie quiere ser hombre?: festines secretos de invertidos! Barcelona, España: RM Verlag, 2014.
HQ 77.95 .M6 M37 2014 HAYDEN STACKS

Nogar, Anna M. and Oswaldo Estrada, eds. Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico: Literary and Cultural Inquiries. University of Arizona Press, 2014.
See "Part II. Queering Gender and Twisting Genres."
PQ 7157 .C66 2014eb ONLINE ACCESS (ebrary)
PQ 7157 .C66 2014eb ONLINE ACCESS (MyiLibrary)

Olcott, Jocelyn, Mary Kay Vaughan, and Gabriela Cano, eds. Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico. Duke University Press, 2006.
Includes “Unconcealable Realities of Desire: Amelio Robles's (Transgender) Masculinity in the Mexican Revolution” by Gabriela Cano.
HQ 1462 .S49 2006 HAYDEN STACKS

Peralta, Braulio. Los nombres del arco iris : trazos para redescubrir el movimiento homosexual. Mexico, D.F.: Nueva Imagen, 2006.
HQ 76.3 .M6 P47 2006 HAYDEN STACKS

Prieur, Annick. Mema’s House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens and Machos. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
HQ 77 .P6813 1998eb ONLINE ACCESS (ebrary)
HQ 77 .P6813 1998 HAYDEN STACKS

Salgado, Dante. Notas sobre literatura Mexicana queer. [Mexico City]: Editorial Praxis, 2012.
PQ 7122 .H66 N683 2012 HAYDEN STACKS

Serrano Avilés, Tomás. El amor tiene cara de mujer : intimidad de las lesbianas en la ciudad de México. México : Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo : LITO-GRAPO, 2011.
HQ 75.6 .M6 S37 2011 HAYDEN STACKS

Sluis, Ageeth. Deco Body, Deco City: Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900-1939. University of Nebraska Press, 2016. The Mexican Experience.
HQ 1181 .M6 S58 2016eb ONLINE ACCESS (MyiLibrary)

Tyburczy, Jennifer. Sex in Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display. University of Chicago Press, 2016.
See chapter 5: “Exhibiting the Sexual Modern.”
N 8217 .E6 T93 2016eb ONLINE ACCESS (MyiLibrary)

Manuscript:

Rubén Darío 1882-1945 (bulk 1882-1915) MSS-339
“The Rubén Darío Papers contain approximately 900 handwritten pages of poetry, essays, short stories, diplomatic memos, and personal letters created by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916). These manuscripts document Darío's life and work as a journalist, diplomat, and poet between 1882 and 1915.”

https://repository.asu.edu/collections/147

Queer Theory in Latin America Reading Lists

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