Bodies

doi:10.1017/9781108976367.018

Chapter 17 - Bodies

from Part IV - Connectors

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2023

Javier Guerrero and

Dylan Blau Edelstein

Edited by

Fernando Degiovanni and

Javier Uriarte

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Fernando Degiovanni: Affiliation:
City University of New York
Javier Uriarte: Affiliation:
Stony Brook University, State University of New York

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Summary

This chapter examines the complex itineraries of two influential Latin American queer writers – Mexican playwright and official chronicler of Mexico City Salvador Novo (1904–1974) and Chilean intellectual and diplomat Augusto D’Halmar (1882–1950) – to expose how their bodies undergo significant transformations in order to assert new sensibilities and relationships in the economy and productivity of travel. Novo and D’Halmar utilize their bodies to respond to the heteronormative pact between the state and the lettered city, and also to map a larger world based on unexpected connections, transformations, and new readings of the common archive. Through Eastern clothing and intense fevers, cosmetic prostheses and flamboyant behavior, these writers disorganize the hierarchies that dominate the hegemonic narratives of sex. In the process, they attempt to achieve a sort of material autonomy – the chance to regulate their own bodily matter – and thus forge new paths for Latin American writers.

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travel writing queerness body’s materiality illness homosexuality Latin America Chilean literature Mexican literature chronicle archive

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Information: Latin American Literature in Transition 1870–1930 , pp. 252 - 266

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108976367.018 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2022

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