Broadway and the world of Disney in the queer poetry of Ana María Moix and Katy Parra

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2019

Abstract

This essay analyzes how references to us culture are integrated into the discourses of two Spanish queer poets as a mode of subversion and resistance to established power. Such is the case of the verses by Ana María Moix, whose work focuses on the world of cabaret, on the lgtbq+ community of the 1970s us, and on Hollywood, and the verses by Katy Parra, who deconstructs normative discourse as it is represented in the world of Disney and in fairy tales, with their monsters, princes, and princesses. Behind the stories of love, broken hearts, and desires that appear in their texts, a “disidentified” subject (in the sense of the word used by José Esteban Muñoz) is represented; as the poetic voice of these texts, this subject tactically moves simultaneously within, with, and against cultural manifestations of order. Thus, by appropriating and remaking children’s stories, the world of Disney, and tales from Broadway, these poets play with the artificiality of the model that these stories present and with the obligatory heterosexism that these sources stories represent and perpetuate. Parra and Moix produce in their poems, in different ways and in different historical periods, a space for non-normative identities, while questioning the control of the dominant social order over the production of subjectivity – a subjectivity they have recreated as a queer subjectivity.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Studi Ispanici

First Page

261

Last Page

275

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