Abstract

GUERRERO, JAVIER. ITINERARIES OF THE BODY: THE ECONOMIES AND EROTICS OF TRAVEL IN LATIN AMERICA AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. perifrasis. rev.lit.teor.crit. [online]. 2021, vol.12, n.23, pp.13-33. ISSN 2145-8987.  https://doi.org/10.25025/perifrasis202112.23.01.

This article understands travel as a bodily experience that interrupts the ideas of the progress and productivity of modernity and modernization. It explores the complex itineraries of two influential Latin American queer writers: the Mexican playwright and chronicler Salvador Novo (1904-1974) and the Chilean novelist and diplomat Augusto D'Halmar (1882-1950). The article examines bodily transformations that range from Eastern clothing and intense fevers (D'Halmar) to cosmetic prostheses (Novo) to discuss and dispute the fixity and immobility of sex.

Keywords : travel; body; queerness; Augusto D'Halmar; Salvador Novo.

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