Queer Events

David Vilaseca was Professor of Hispanic Studies and Critical Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London, and author of Hindsight and the Real: Subjectivity in Gay Hispanic Autobiography (Peter Lang, 2003) and L’aprenentatge de la soledat (Edicions 3i4, 2008; winner of the 2007 Octubre Prize for Catalan fiction). He was killed in a traffic accident in London on 9 February 2010.

• Preface pageAcknowledgementsList of Film StillsIntroductionQueer Events: Locating the Universal in the Spanish Transition1. Of Rats and Men: The Homosexual’s ‘Becoming-Animal’ in Antonio Roig’s Autobiographical Trilogy2. Antigone in Hyde Park: Homosexuality and the Ethics of the Event in Antonio Roig’s Autobiographical Trilogy3. How Does One Escape One’s Own Simulacrum? Time, Repetition and the ‘Asceticism’ of Being in Terenci Moix’s Autobiography4. Deleuze no es únicamente severo: Time and Memory in the Films of the Escola de Barcelona5. Saint Cardín: Sacredness, ‘Sinthomosexuality’ and the (Non-)Place of the Queer in the Spain of the TransitionConclusionA Queer ‘Passion for the Real’BibliographyIndexContents

This is a challenging, compelling, and very well written book which builds on the author’s brilliant Hindsight and the Real in the double sense of taking further a highly significant exploration of representations of (roughly) the self in Spanish culture and of honing already startling skills of exposition of complex philosophical and cultural critical ideas. Chris Perriam