Queer Events: Post-deconstructive Subjectivities in Spanish Writing and Film 1960s-1990s: 4 (Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures) - Hardcover

David Vilaseca

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846314674 ISBN 13: 9781846314674

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Queer Events studies the representations of queer subjectivities during the Spanish Transition era (1960s to 1990s), drawing on some of the most influential critical theorists and philosophers of our times (Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou). The book focuses on well-known Spanish authors and film-makers (Terenci Moix, Vicente Aranda) as well as on others who have merited far less critical attention so far (including Antonio Roig, Alberto Cardin, and the directors of the short-lived avant-garde film movement known as Escuela de Barcelona). 'This is a challenging, compelling, and very well written book which builds on the author's brilliant Hindsight and the Real in the double sense of taking further a highly significant exploration of representations of (roughly) the self in Spanish culture and of honing already startling skills of exposition of complex philosophical and cultural critical ideas' - Professor Chris Perriam, University of Manchester.

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About the Author

David Vilaseca is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Critical Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London, and author of Hindsight and the Real: Subjectivity in Gay Hispanic Autobiography (Peter Lang, 2003) and L'aprenentatge de la soledat (Edicions 3i4, 2008. Winner of the 2007 Octubre' Prize for Catalan fiction).

From the Back Cover

Queer Events studies for the first time crucial texts from the era of the Spanish Transition to democracy, taken here as the period lasting from the 1960s to the 1990s. It offers radically new readings of some major writers and filmmakers, such as Terenci Moix and Vicente Aranda, but also addresses some who deserve to be better known: defrocked priest and autobiographer Antonio Roig, controversial scholar and fiction-writer Alberto Cardín, and experimental film directors José Maria Nunes, Jacinto Esteva-Grewe and Joaquín Jordà, members of the short-lived, but vital, movement known as 'the Barcelona School'. David Vilaseca treats this group of texts, both literary and cinematic, in a wholly original way. Drawing on some of the most influential theorists and philosophers of our time never previously used in a Hispanic context (Deleuze, Agamben, Zizek and, above all, Badiou), Queer Events argues for a radical re-reading of a complex period in Spanish history, which is characterized by amnesia in relation to a painful past and ideological conflict within an unsettling present. The book argues that the Transition emerges as (in Badiou's terms) the great 'evental site' of modern Spain, from which radically new ways of thinking can still emerge.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846314674
• ISBN 13: 9781846314674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256