By David Vilaseca
ISBN-10: 0820462780
ISBN-13: 9780820462783
ISBN-10: 1423757955
ISBN-13: 9781423757955
ISBN-10: 3039100092
ISBN-13: 9783039100095
Hindsight and the genuine: Subjectivity in homosexual Hispanic Autobiography experiences the representations of self and the discursive structure of identification within the autobiographical works by means of a number of (mostly) gay-identified authors in smooth Spanish, Catalan and Latin American literature. those contain, between others, Reinaldo Arenas’s Antes que anochezca (1992), Juan Goytisolo’s Coto vedado (1985) and En los reinos de taifa (1986), Jaime Gil de Biedma’s Retrato del artista en 1956 (1994) and Salvador Dalí’s Un diari: 1919–1920 (1994). The e-book includes a sequence of case stories associated with a habitual significant argument. Drawing on quite a lot of modern critics and philosophers (including, between others, Slavoj Žižek, Ernesto Laclau, Homi Bhabha and Emmanuel Lévinas), it proposes a idea of id and (homo)sexuality that's neither essentialist nor simply ‘positional’ (discursive). hence, whereas trying to exhibit (in post-structuralist model) that homosexual Spanish and Latin American self-representations are retroactive constructs constantly inflected by way of political and discursive elements reminiscent of nationality, ‘race’ and sophistication, the publication additionally stresses the position of the ‘Real’ – the kernel of pre-discursive substance which, in line with Lacan and his fans, either precedes and exceeds the symbolic order.
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I then exemplify such a foreclosure by focusing on the political, ‘artistic’ and (homo)sexual 31 aspects of his autobiography, showing how in all three fields the earliest of the two autobiographical texts by Dalí remains the Other Scene of the artist’s subjectivity. In Chapter 2, I focus on the ways in which Hervé Guibert and Reinaldo Arenas construct their respective identities as PWAs (persons with ‘AIDS’). In the first section, I draw on, among others, Susan Sontag’s and Lee Edelman’s work on metaphor, in an attempt to show that in order to negotiate his own subjective position, Guibert must necessarily resort to figurations which, far from being unequivocally empowering or liberational, always carry within them ‘the virulent germ of the dominant cultur[e]’ (Edelman 1994, 91).
How or through what specific processes can a subject ‘quilt’ his or her own discursive field, hence ‘constituting’ him/herself? It is one of my main contentions in this chapter that such an operation can only be carried out through structural opposition – that is, by excluding from an always already established ‘core’ of identity those contents which, falling beyond the sieve of differential signification, cannot be integrated into a subject’s (symbolic and symbolised) world. As I will attempt to demonstrate in the next section drawing on Slavoj Žižek’s notion of the Real, such excessive, non-integrated contents (which Un diari: 1919–1920 will be seen to represent in Salvador Dalí’s overall autobiographical project) embody both a structural limit to the subject and, paradoxically, the only base on which to anchor his or her ontological consistency.
There exists only the translation of a selection of Gil de Biedma’s poems. See Longing: Selected Poems (1993). On this point see Alberto Mira’s discussion in Para Entendernos (1999), 325– 326. See also Juan Vicente Aliaga and José Miguel G. Cortés (1997), 164–165. in it is justified because of the thematic comparison with Reinaldo Arenas that his work enables me to establish, particularly as regards the metaphorical uses of ‘AIDS’ in autobiography. What brings this volume together is not the linearity with which it unfolds a continuous argument about the complexity of the notion of the gay ‘subject’ – although a sense of progression from ‘poststructuralism’ towards what I eventually call, after Simon Critchley (1999, 71–72) ‘post-deconstructive’ subjectivity can be clearly identified.
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