Sexuality in Goytisolo'sAntagonía

Fluidity, subversion, and conservatism

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ID3071369
AuthorsJosé Antonio Jódar-Sánchez (Universitat de Barcelona, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume8
Issue1
Pages82-107
Publication date2019-03-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2211-3770 • E-ISSN: 2211-3789
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jls.18011.jod
OpenAlexW2922495112
LanguageES
Citations received3
References cited22

Antagoníais Luis Goytisolo's masterpiece. In this article I present a quantitative and qualitative study of his prose with regards to sexuality. Through an analysis of keywords, concordances, dispersion, and discourses, I show thatAntagoníafeeds from two historical periods, namely the ending dictatorship and the new democratic transition. Some of its discourses are the product of the Spain of the 1970s and 80s. Among them, we find sexist, male chauvinist, and homophobic discourses latent during those times. Women and queer people are frequently characterized in a negative fashion. However, we also find more subversive discourses that empower women. In sum, I consider Goytisolo's tetralogy a "fluid" or "transitional" novel in that it is imbued with contradictory discourses rooted in different historical periods

Democracy · Dictatorship · Human sexuality · Political science · Politics · Product (mathematics · Queer · Sociology · Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism · Gender Studies · Law · Spanish Culture and Identity · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies

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