Published: 2022-08-10

To imitate or to reject? Contemporary Argentine Gay Narrative and Heteronormativity

Marcin Kołakowski Logo ORCID

Abstract

The most recent Argentine gay narrative, despite being written in the post-emancipation era, is still immersed in a series of dichotomies typical of pre-emancipation gay narrative: hetero/homo, masculine/feminine, and strength/weakness. This article analyzes literary texts by contemporary Argentine writers, most widely read and commonly known in the Argentine LGTBIQ+ community (Facundo R. Soto, Peter Pank and Ioshua) in order to hypothesize the existence of a tension between a dichotomous vision of the homo and heterosexual confrontation and another, where this binarism is eroded within the texts. It also discusses whether it is possible to speak in this context of a conceptual convergence encompassed under the synthetic notion of civilibarbarie introduced by Elsa Drucaroff.

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Kołakowski, M. (2022). To imitate or to reject? Contemporary Argentine Gay Narrative and Heteronormativity. Romanica Silesiana, 22(2), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.31261/RS.2022.22.05

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2022)
Published: 2023-05-12


ISSN: 1898-2433
eISSN: 2353-9887

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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