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Lenchitudes: Sapphic Representation in Contemporary Mexican Narrative

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alejandra MárquezSeries:Suny Series, Genders in the Global SouthPublish date:1/1/2026Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9798855805147UPC:9798855805147Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, LGBTQ+ Studies, LGBTQ+Book Topic:Lesbian StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SCDNE14RB9

Shows how representations of sapphic desire can subvert or sustain prevailing norms of gender, sexuality, and power in Mexican texts from the 1980s to the 2010s.

Drawing inspiration from the 2020 Marcha Lencha-"Lesbian March"-in Mexico City, Alejandra Márquez expands the concept of lenchitudes into a critical framework for thinking about gender and sexuality more expansively and inclusively, beyond essentialist identity categories. Assembling a lesbian archive that stretches from the publication of Rosamaría Roffiel's cult classic Amora in 1989 to the 2010s, Lenchitudes argues that sapphic representation in contemporary Mexican narrative subverts but also reinforces patriarchal norms. Sapphic narratives, Márquez argues, are not inherently queer but rather can uphold binary gender roles, heteronormativity, and monogamy. Bridging literature and activism, and putting theorists such as Judith Butler, Jack Halberstam, and José Esteban Muñoz into conversation with Latin American scholarship, Lenchitudes boldly joins ongoing debates about the place of queerness, or lo cuir, in Latin America.

Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9798855805147UPC:9798855805147Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, LGBTQ+ Studies, LGBTQ+Book Topic:Lesbian StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SCDNE14RB9

Alejandra Márquez is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Michigan State University.


Publisher: State University of New York Press

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