Temporalities of Desire: Queer Relations across the Spanish Atlantic

Russell, Ian Matthew

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Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Russell, Ian Matthew (creator); Thomas, Sarah (Advisor); Clayton, Michelle (Reader); Whitfield, Esther (Reader); Brown University. Department of Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Queer theory; Caribbean Studies; Spanish literature; performance studies; Spanish poetry; Transatlantic studies; Cuban poetry; García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936; Cernuda, Luis; Zambrano, María
Extent:: 7, 224 p.

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Abstract:: "Temporalities of Desire" traces the intersections between poetry, performance, and temporality in the work of three Spanish writers from the first half of the twentieth century. The poetic praxes of Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, and María Zambrano each share in a desire to materialize the Other within and through the Self, using temporality as a medium and material to conjure the object of desire. Additionally, this thesis takes the displacement of each of these authors across the Atlantic as fundamental to their work. For instance, both Cernuda and Zambrano lived in exile in the Americas after the Spanish Civil War. I suggest a commonality among desires which did not fit within heterosexual or nation-state norms and their construction through similarly non-linear and non-normative temporalities. In each chapter, I explore how these authors conjure the past, the atavistic, and the primitivist as fundamental elements to engendering desire and relation. In particular, the first two chapters emphasize the complicity between backward timelines, colonial logics, and homoerotic desire in the work of García Lorca and Cernuda. The final chapter on María Zambrano, though not devoid of colonial and Euro-centric tropes, introduces the possibility of non-hegemonic desires and relations to be found among these authors.
Notes:: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brown University, 2019

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Russell, Ian Matthew, "Temporalities of Desire: Queer Relations across the Spanish Atlantic" (2019). Hispanic Studies Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:1129445/

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