{"product_id":"queer-transitions-in-contemporary-spanish-gema-perez-sanchez-9780791471746","title":"Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture: From Franco to La Movida","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffers a sustained analysis of both high and low queer culture and its connections to cultural and political processes in Spain.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGema Pérez-Sánchez argues that the process of political and cultural transition from dictatorship to democracy in Spain can be read allegorically as a shift from a dictatorship that followed a self-loathing \"homosexual\" model to a democracy that identified as a pluralized \"queer\" body. Focusing on the urban cultural phenomenon of la movida, she offers a sustained analysis of high queer culture, as represented by novels, along with an examination of low queer culture, as represented by comic books and films. Pérez-Sánchez shows that urban queer culture played a defining role in the cultural and political processes that helped to move Spain from a premodern, fascist military dictatorship to a late-capitalist, parliamentary democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book highlights the contributions of women writers Ana María Moix and Cristina Peri Rossi, as well as comic book artists Ana Juan, Victoria Martos, Ana Miralles, and Asun Balzola. Its attention to women's cultural production functions as a counterpoint to its analysis of the works of such male writers as Juan Goytisolo and Eduardo Mendicutti, comic book artists Nazario, Rubén, and Luis Pérez Ortiz, and filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gema Perez-Sanchez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791471748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791471746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/05\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 5.99w x 0.68d","brand":"Gema Perez-Sanchez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096729493759,"sku":"9780791471746","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/queer-transitions-in-contemporary-spanish-gema-perez-sanchez-9780791471746","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}