Abstract
This article understands travel as a bodily experience that interrupts the ideas of the progress and productivity of modernity and modernization. It explores the complex itineraries of two influential Latin American queer writers: the Mexican playwright and chronicler Salvador Novo (1904-1974) and the Chilean novelist and diplomat Augusto D’Halmar (1882-1950). The article examines bodily transformations that range from Eastern clothing and intense fevers (D’Halmar) to cosmetic prostheses (Novo) to discuss and dispute the fixity and immobility of sex.
Translated title of the contribution | ITINERARIES OF THE BODY: THE ECONOMIES AND EROTICS OF TRAVEL IN LATIN AMERICA AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY |
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Original language | Spanish |
Pages (from-to) | 13-33 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Perifrasis |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 23 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2021 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Literature and Literary Theory
Keywords
- Augusto D’Halmar
- Salvador Novo
- body
- queerness
- travel