Another Country: Sexuality and National Identity in Catalan Gay Fiction

Josep-Anton Fernàndez

Another Country
Sexuality and National Identity in Catalan Gay Fiction

Josep-Anton Fernàndez

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MHRA Texts and Dissertations 50

Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association

1 January 2000

ISBN: 978-1-839546-88-4 (Hosted on this website)

Open Access with doi: 10.59860/td.b598eca

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This book studies the emergence, in the late 1960s and 1970s, of a sophisticated body of gay fiction in Catalan, and examines the relation between the representation of homosexuality and the discourses on national identity that legitimate modern Catalan literature. Gay fiction, argues the author, reveals a tension between the nation and the body in Catalan literature: Catalonia is a nation different from Spain, a cultural and political minority within Europe; but the existence of sexual minorities within its boundaries reveals its inner complexity, which resists homogenization. Catalonia is another country in more ways than one. Drawing on a variety of critical discourses (gay theory, psychoanalysis, and authors such as Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, and Bourdieu), Another Country explores the intertwinings of identity, cultural politics, and desire in the work of Terenci Moix, Lluís Fernàndez, Biel Mesquida, and Lluís Maria Todó. The book analyses how gay writers renegotiate identity discourses in Catalan literature in order to introduce homosexuality into them, often with destabilising effects. The role of gay authors in the process of canon construction (a crucial aspect of contemporary cultural nationalism in Catalonia) is also considered, focusing on postmodernism and the divide between high and mass culture. Finally, Another Country addresses the interplay of homosexual desire within the frame of a distinction between perversion and transgression, and proposes an alliance between queer and nationalist discourses.

This book, originally published in paperback in 2000 under the ISBN 978-1-902653-26-6, was made Open Access in 2025 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme.

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i-viii, 1-241	Another Country: Sexuality and National Identity in Catalan Gay Fiction Josep-Anton Fernàndez Complete volume as single PDF The complete text of this book.	Read

i-viii	Another Country: Sexuality and National Identity in Catalan Gay Fiction - Front Matter Josep-Anton Fernàndez doi:10.59860/td.c6a5c01 Front cover, Contents, and Acknowledgements.	Read Cite
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1-10	Introduction: Another Country Josep-Anton Fernàndez doi:10.59860/td.c6c0dfe This book studies the emergence, in the late 1960s and the 1970s, of a body of gay literature in Catalan, and examines the complex relation in it between the representation of homosexual desire and the discourses on national identity which have historically been the ideological basis of the Catalan literary institution.	Read Cite
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11-46	1. El dia que va morir Marilyn: Genealogy, Social Reproduction, and the Family Romance Josep-Anton Fernàndez doi:10.59860/td.c7d0245 From history to genealogy - Homosexual desire and the failure of social reproduction.	Read Cite
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47-70	2. La increada consciència de la raça: Dismantling Oedipus Josep-Anton Fernàndez doi:10.59860/td.c8c6fec Narcissism and the geometry of desire - The anti-Oedipal melodrama.	Read Cite
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71-100	3. Món Mascle: Postmodernism and the Masochist Aesthetics Josep-Anton Fernàndez doi:10.59860/td.c04cd4f Eating the fetish - Culture as a top, the author as a bottom.	Read Cite
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101-28	4. La caiguda de l'imperi sodomita: Perverting the Canon Josep-Anton Fernàndez doi:10.59860/td.c15c196 Camping about Sodom - Surpassing cultural onanism.	Read Cite
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129-64	5. Lluís Fernàndez's L'anarquista nu: Transgression, Becoming, and Death Josep-Anton Fernàndez doi:10.59860/td.c26b5dd Transgression, subversion, and becoming - Presumed innocent - Becoming-gay and the death of Man.	Read Cite
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165-87	6. Biel Mesquida's Puta-Marès (Ahí): Transgressive Strategies and the Politics of Literary Experimentation Josep-Anton Fernàndez doi:10.59860/td.c37a63c History made delirious - Normalization gone crazy.	Read Cite
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188-212	7. Transgression Revisited: Truth, Strategy, and Identity in Lluís Maria Todó's El joc del mentider Josep-Anton Fernàndez doi:10.59860/td.c489a83 Dangerous liaisons - Clever games, unexpected results.	Read Cite
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213-41	Another Country: Sexuality and National Identity in Catalan Gay Fiction - End Matter Josep-Anton Fernàndez doi:10.59860/td.c6a5c00 Bibliography, Index, and back cover.	Read Cite
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Another Country Sexuality and National Identity in Catalan Gay Fiction

Josep-Anton Fernàndez

Another Country
Sexuality and National Identity in Catalan Gay Fiction