Contents -- Esto no es una despedida -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Age of Suspicion: Mapping Sexualities in Hispanic Literary and Cultural Texts -- Chapter 1 The Sexual Economy of Miguel de Cervantes -- Chapter 2 The Sinful Scene: Transgression in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama (1625-1685) -- Chapter 3 Desire and Decorum in the Twentieth-Century Colombian Novel -- Chapter 4 Representations of Family and Sexuality in Brazilian Cultural Discourse -- Chapter 5 The Body in Context: Don Quixote and Don Juan -- Chapter 6 Popular Culture and Gender/Genre Construction in Mexican Bolero by Angeles Mastretta -- Chapter 7 Sexing the Bildungsroman: Las edades de Lulú, Pornography, and the Pleasure Principle -- Chapter 8 El diario de José Toledo: A Queer Space in the World of Mexican Letters -- Chapter 9 Camilo's Closet: Sexual Camouflage in Denevi's Rosaura a las diez -- Chapter 10 Monobodies, Antibodies, and the Body Politic: Sara Levi Calderón's Dos mujeres -- Chapter 11 Not So Lonely: A Butch-Femme Reading of Cristina Peri-Rossi's Solitario de amor -- Chapter 12 The Case for Feminine Pornography in Latin America -- Chapter 13 The Pornographic Subject of Los borbones en pelota -- Chapter 14 Codifying Homosexuality as Grotesque: The Writings of Virgilio Piñera -- Chapter 15 Eroticism and Homoeroticism in Martín Fierro -- Chapter 16 Intricacies of Brazilian Gayness: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Temporal Approach -- Chapter 17 The Ecstasy of Disease: Mysticism, Metaphor, and AIDS in Las virtudes del pájaro solitario -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.