Federico Garcia Lorca and the Culture of Male Homosexuality

by Alberto Mira and Ángel Sahuquillo

Spain in the twentieth century gave birth to an array of astounding artistic and literary talent, including the passionately iconoclastic writer Federico Garcia Lorca. But his works were ill received in the homophobic atmosphere of institutionalized Spanish criticism. Because of this atmosphere, even today's critics have effectively marginalized and disavowed intimations of homo-affectivity and homoeroticism in the great Spanish works. This book first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078642897X
• ISBN13: 9780786428977
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher