Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona
Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company
Natasha Tanna
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ISBN: 978-1-781888-11-7 (hardback) • RRP £75, $99, €85 ISBN: 978-1-781888-12-4 (paperback, 2020) • RRP £9.99, $12.50, €12.50 ISBN: 978-1-781888-13-1 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR ContemporarySpanishCatalanFictionPoetry How do queer texts engage traditional perceptions of family, nation, and the literary canon? How do readers and writers connect with their predecessors? Natasha Tanna explores lesbian and queer desire through three authors based in Barcelona, a key locus of queer cultural production. Her analysis of the Catalan Maria-Mercè Marçal (1952-1998), of Montevideo-born Cristina Peri Rossi (1941-), and of Buenos Aires-born Flavia Company (1963-) disrupts linear conceptions of time and challenges the centrality of textual and authorial origin to national literary historiographies. Whereas conventional understandings of genealogy emphasise a continuous line of inheritance traced from an origin, Tanna highlights the collaborative creation in these authors’ fragmented, transnational genealogies. A queer bringing together of disparate fragments suggests how we might navigate difference in an increasingly entwined, yet ever more fractious, world in which notions of ‘pure’ or ‘simple’ origins are often violently at odds with disordered and disorderly relationships between people, nations, and texts. Natasha Tanna is a Lecturer in Spanish at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge. For a contents listing, see this volume at JSTOR. Bibliography entry: Tanna, Natasha, Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona: Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 37 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2019) First footnote reference: 35 Natasha Tanna, Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona: Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 37 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2019), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Tanna, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Tanna, Natasha. 2019. Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona: Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 37 (Cambridge: Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Tanna 2019: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Tanna 2019: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up a free ipage® Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Queer-Genealogies-in-Transnational-Barcelona www.mhra.org.uk/publications/shlc-37 |
30 December 2019 • 198pp