Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American and Spanish Culture - Tapa dura

""Reading and Writing the Ambiente" will be of interest to scholars of Spanish, Latin American, and Latino literatures and cultural studies, as well as to scholars in queer studies beyond the geographical and linguistic boundaries of Hispanism." Amy Kaminsky, University of Minnesota" "North American and European queers have assigned themselves the roles of 'universal' queer subjects. "Reading and Writing the Ambiente" insightfully challenges that bias. This volume joins and significantly contributes to an emergent wave of queer critique that is calibrated to look beyond the borders that queer theory has set up for itself." Jose Esteban Munoz, author of "Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics""

In this collection of essays, a range of literary scholars trace gay and lesbian themes in Latin American, Hispanic and US Latino literary and cultural texts. It includes discussion of texts from as early as the 17th century to writings of the late-20th century.