Argentine Intimacies

Joseph M. Pierce is Associate Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University, State University of New York.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Bunge Family: Queerness, Kinship, and Modernity1. Carlos Octavio Bunge: Queer Desire and Family Fictions2. Sisters Writing, Sisters Reading: The Diaries of Julia and Delfina Bunge3. Spectral Desires: Queering the Family Album4. Family Pedagogy: The Institutionalization of Kinship5. National Essays, Home Economics: The Argentine Oligarchy in DeclineEpilogue: Toward a Queer Latin American StudiesNotesWorks CitedIndex

"Pierce has written a work that invites us to remember something difficult to achieve in today's academe: the balanced juncture of the pleasure of thinking and of reading. I am referring to the precision of [his] prose, linked to a lucid, creative, and renewed mode of thought … This book-manifesto … of queer Latin American critique is fundamental for scholars in the field aiming to reimagine the process of research by taking identity as a cultural object." — Fernando A. Blanco, Revista Iberoamericana"The book is an expansive project that provides an insightful and thorough analysis that breaks with heteropatriarchal understandings of family structures in Latin America … Pierce provides a critical interrogation between U.S.-based queer studies and Latin American studies that will allow scholars in the two fields to think in more hemispheric terms." — GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies"Argentine Intimacies is a fine contribution to Argentine studies, to fin-de-siècle studies and to queer studies when understood in a far larger sense than solely lesbigay liberation." — Bulletin of Spanish Studies"Argentine Intimacies provides a valuable intervention in the fields of cultural studies, Latin American studies, LGBT/queer studies, literary studies, and photography studies. Pierce conducted extensive archival research on the historically significant Bunge family in Argentina and offers lucid, theoretically informed, and original readings of their lives and cultural productions." — Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan