Queer exposures : sexuality and photography in Roberto Bolaño's fiction and poetry /

Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) stands out among recent Latin American writers because of his unique combination of critical acclaim, popularity, and literary significance. Queer Exposures analyzes two central but understudied topics in Bolaño's fiction and poetry: sexuality and photography. Movin...

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Váldodahkki:	Long, Ryan Fred, 1971- (Dahkki)
Materiálatiipa:	Licensed eBooks
Giella:	eaŋgalasgiella
Almmustuhtton:	Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Ráidu:	Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Liŋkkat:	https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2913759

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Table of Contents
Front Matter(pp. i-vi)
Front Matter(pp. i-vi)
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Table of Contents(pp. vii-viii)
Table of Contents(pp. vii-viii)
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Acknowledgments(pp. ix-2)
Acknowledgments(pp. ix-2)
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INTRODUCTION(pp. 3-24)
INTRODUCTION(pp. 3-24)
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Roberto Bolaño's texts form multiple constellations. Like stars, they stand alone but also invite connections that outline images. These connections are spatial, functions of surface and depth. They are also temporal, and their temporality is a function of light, both the time required for it to meet a reader's eyes and the possibility of its encountering multiple readers in multiple places at multiple moments. Different forms of exposure characterize this ever-shifting spatial and temporal network, the exposure of texts to readers, readers to texts, and texts to texts. The network's complexity becomes increasingly visible upon considering the prominence within Bolaño's. . .
CHAPTER ONE A Queer Poetics of Intemperie "Labyrinth" as Darkroom(pp. 25-66)
CHAPTER ONE A Queer Poetics of Intemperie "Labyrinth" as Darkroom(pp. 25-66)
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"Labyrinth" is a short story published in the posthumous collection El secreto del mal (The Secret of Evil) (2007). Its unknown narrator invents a series of interconnected tales about figures in a photograph he describes to the reader in great detail. His ekphrasis, or textual commentary on an image, exhibits a desire for narrative control while acknowledging the limits to that control, thereby setting in motion a productive tension emerging from the interplay of photograph, text, document, and fiction. "Labyrinth" is centrally important to my project because of the way it establishes this tension and interplay, one of whose facets. . .
CHAPTER TWO Desiring and Resisting Mastery in Bolaño's Poetry(pp. 67-98)
CHAPTER TWO Desiring and Resisting Mastery in Bolaño's Poetry(pp. 67-98)
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The narrator of "Labyrinth" asserts twice that the Tel Quel photograph dates to 1977, the same year Bolaño left Mexico. J.-J. Goux leaves two places, the photograph and then the bar where he had waited in vain for Jacques Henric. When he leaves the bar, Goux experiences exposure and immobility, which are, respectively, a necessary condition and a result of photography. They are also the converse. Immobility can be the condition of a sharp photograph-for example, one taken in low light or with a slow shutter speed, and exposure can be the result, in the case of a photograph. . .
CHAPTER THREE Reading Queerly Homoerotic Poetry, Temporality, and Revolution(pp. 99-116)
CHAPTER THREE Reading Queerly Homoerotic Poetry, Temporality, and Revolution(pp. 99-116)
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Many of Bolaño's poems present topics of gender and sexuality in predominantly heterosexual terms, and often from a decidedly heteronormative and masculinist point of view. They are central to my overall analysis for the ways in which they unsettle the desire for mastery or spatiotemporal capture by positing the critical productivity that resides within unstable states of intermediacy and intemperie. Bolaño's poetry also unsettles the desire for mastery through its questioning of the kind of coherent subjectivity often associated with autobiography and narrative voice, and through its positing of ghosts as privileged readers. The texts I analyze in this chapter. . .
Detectives of Intemperie(pp. 117-148)
CHAPTER FOUR The Detectives of Intemperie(pp. 117-148)
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Detectives connote procedure, solution, and a return to order following violent interruption. The states of suspension that characterize much of Bolaño's poetry do not appear within texts that present definitive resolution. Dreams of love, as in "Stroll," or homoerotic poetic encounter, as in "The Donkey," are portrayed as persisting in a state of intemperie, one that may not lead to a legible present but that resists the ordering and obliterating effects of teleology. The violence associated with epiphany in "Reunion" and "Visit" calls into question the possibility of divine assurance and redemption the word "epiphany" connotes while preserving multiple encounters. . .
CHAPTER FIVE Queer Itineraries and Moments of Exposure in The Savage Detectives(pp. 149-188)
CHAPTER FIVE Queer Itineraries and Moments of Exposure in The Savage Detectives(pp. 149-188)
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The structure of The Savage Detectives places the novel's different parts in relations of exposure to one another. The novel also includes within its different narratives several moments of exposure similar to the one at the end of the story "Detectives." The Savage Detectives consists of three parts, the second of which goes temporally and spatially beyond the confines of the first and third. Those bookend parts take the form of a diary by Juan García Madero, a young man who lives with his aunt and uncle in Mexico City, and who has plans to study law, from which he. . .
CHAPTER SIX Queer Exposures and Textual Constellations(pp. 189-234)
CHAPTER SIX Queer Exposures and Textual Constellations(pp. 189-234)
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This final chapter places in erotic encounter, sometimes only briefly, several texts. They are the short story titled "Photos," which describes Belano's contemplation of a book about Francophone poetry while he finds himself alone and exposed in Liberia; the novel Amulet, which is the expanded version of Lacouture's entry in The Savage Detectives, and which presents an eccentric view of the events of 1968 in Mexico City, including the student movement, the Tlatelolco massacre, and the occupation of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), while also recounting important moments of the adolescent years of Belano and San Epifanio; the. . .
ertain Stars Science Fiction and the Emperor of Ice Cream(pp. 235-236)
A CONCLUSION Certain Stars Science Fiction and the Emperor of Ice Cream(pp. 235-236)
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In the final pages of 2666, Benno von Archimboldi prepares to travel to Santa Teresa at the behest of his sister, Lotte Haas, because his nephew, Klaus Haas, has been accused of committing and masterminding many of the femicides there. Before he leaves Hamburg, he sits on the terrace of a bar and enjoys an ice cream confection called a Fürst Pückler. By chance a man named Alexander Fürst Pückler is also seated on the bar's terrace. He introduces himself to Archimboldi and tells the latter that one of his distant ancestors invented the ice cream Archimboldi is enjoying. According. . .
Notes(pp. 237-280)
Notes(pp. 237-280)
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Bibliography(pp. 281-290)
Bibliography(pp. 281-290)
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Index(pp. 291-300)
Index(pp. 291-300)
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gkz.14
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Queer exposures : sexuality and photography in Roberto Bolaño's fiction and poetry /

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