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Queer/cuir/cuy (r) in Latin America. Accidents and misunderstandings in Ena Lucía Portela’s narrative/De lo queer/cuir/cuy (r) en América Latina. Accidentes y malos entendidos …

Abstract:

This paper aims to analyze Ena Lucía Portela’s suggestive literature and the possibilities to examine her texts from a cuir/cuy (r)/queer perspective. Through the short story" En vísperas del accidente", the author's understanding of mainstream queer theory and its impact on her literary process is explored. But, also, how her characters, sexually diverse subjects, locate themselves in the global traffic of identity politics, which allows discussing the landing of queer theory in the Third World. The intersection of post/decolonial theories with gender studies is the focal point from which some understandings, misunderstandings, and tacit understandings are evaluated in the narrative of the Cuban author, while translating (semantically and culturally)“lo queer” in Latin America.