Maria Dolores Costa received her Ph.D. in Spanish literature from the University of Massachusetts. She is Assistant Professor of Spanish at California State University, Los Angeles.
Entries by Maria Dolores Costa
literature >> Azaña, Manuel
Although sexuality does not appear in any of the works of leftist political figure Manuel Azaņa, he was committed to liberal freedom and revolutionary reforms.
literature >> Cernuda, Luis
Luis Cernuda, one of Spain's most important twentieth-century poets, expressed his homosexuality first indirectly and then explicitly in his poetry.
literature >> Goytisolo, Juan
The iconoclastic Juan Goytisolo, one of the most prominent literary figures in Spain, exalts homosexuality for rejecting repressive Hispanic social norms.
literature >> Spanish Literature
Treating homosexuality in Spanish literature is largely a twentieth-century phenomenon, occurring most frequently in the post-Franco decades.
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