Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-173) and index.
1. Agenda and Canon: Some Necessary Priorities -- 2. Evita Peron, Juan Jose Sebreli, and Gender -- 3. The Case for Feminine Pornography in Latin America -- 4. Queering the Patriarchy in Hermosillo's Dona Herlinda y su hijo -- 5. Homoerotic Writing and Chicano Authors -- 6. Montes Huidobro's Exilio and the Representation of Gay Identity -- 7. The Representation of the Body in the Poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik -- 8. The Crisis of Masculinity in Argentine Fiction, 1940-1960