Assen Kokalov
A volume in Research in Queer StudiesSeries Editors Paul Chamness Miller and Hidehiro Endo,Akita International UniversityThe book examines the links between literature and film in Latin America by using queer theoryand a series of recent cultural productions whose arguments destabilize traditional gender roles andheteronormative masculinity. For many years, the connections between a literary text and its filmadaptation have been considered only from the point of view of the latter’s fidelity to the writtenwork, which many scholars imagined to be the original that filmmakers needed to respect. Within the last two decades, however, theidea of adaptation fidelity has been challenged by a number of critics who refute the existence of an original text and promote the notionof an ambiguous and complex relationship between a literary work and its film adaptation. Based on such developments and with thehelp of queer theory, this book questions and revises several crucial theoretical approximations that analyze the relations between thetwo art forms in an attempt to overcome the limitations of fidelity discourse. This is the first book-length study that seeks to examine,with the appropriate detail, the connections between film and literature in Latin America through the lenses of queer theory and byfocusing on the representations of numerous practices that do not fit within the general framework of heteronormative sexuality.
