Homosexuality and Political Activism in Latin American Culture: An Arena for Popular Culture and Comix

Other Voices: The ejournal of Cultural Criticism

University of Pennsylvania

Lugar: Philadelphia; Año: 1998 vol. 2

1094-2254

font color="#000000">Upheavals (both political and social), revolution, neo-colonialism, dependencia theory, and liberatory ideology hallmark Latin America's turbulent history. And even with the end of the Cold War and the democratization of South American countries, oppression and trouble still exist. The "revolution" has not come to fruition and scholars from various academic areas (e.g, Foster 1980 1989 1991, Leiner 1994, Lindstrom 1980, Skidmore/Smith 1984, Steele 1992, Traba 1994) concur with this assessment. The oppression of the gay community and political intolerance in Latin America, as portrayed in Senel Paz's El lobo, el bosque y el homdre nuevo (available only in Spanish) and Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman demonstrates, in part, the continuing struggle for human rights and political liberation in this region of the world.