Tortorici Sins against Nature

Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7162-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Drawing on over 300 prosecutions of sex acts in colonial New Spain between 1530 and 1821, Zeb Tortorici shows how courts used the concept “against nature” to try those accused of sodomy, bestiality, and other sex acts, thereby demonstrating how the archive influences understandings of bodies, desires, and social categories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tortorici, Zeb

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on Translation ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Archiving the Unnatural 1
1. Viscerality in the Archives: Consuming Desires 25
2. Impulses of the Archive: Misinscription and Voyeurism 46
3. Archiving the Signs of Sodomy: Bodies and Gestures 84
4. To Deaden the Memory: Bestiality and Animal Erasure 124
5. Archives of Negligence: Solicitation in the Confessional 161
6. Desiring the Divine: Pollution and Pleasure 197
Conclusion. Accessing Absence, Surveying Seduction 233
Appendix 255
List of Archives 261
Notes 263
Bibliography 297
Index 309

Über Autor(innen)

Zeb Tortorici is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University, coeditor of Centering Animals in Latin American History, also published by Duke University Press, and editor of Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America.