Historia de la literatura gay en Argentina Representaciones sociales de la homosexualidad masculina en la ficción literaria

Since the advent of literature, images of homosexuality have served as metaphors for the unnamable, the abnormal, and that which lies outside the Nation. Along with a consideration of the nature and boundaries of gay literature, this book constitutes a pioneering attempt to systematize a history of gay literature in Argentina. The author proposes the formation of a gay tradition that works to resist hegemonic discourses and contributes to the fight to expand civil rights.

Adrián Melo is an Argentinean researcher and professor of sociology and philosophy. He holds a doctorate in social sciences and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Buenos Aires. He is the author of El amor de los muchachos: homosexualidad y literatura and the co-author of Obsesiones y fantasmas de la Argentina: El antisemitismo, Evita, los desaparecidos y Malvinas en la ficción literaria, among other books.