María Cristina Campos Fuentes (DeSales University)
This panel explores representations of love and its reversals, including rejection, disaffection, violence, and hate, as well as its erotic and desiring dimensions, in Peninsular and Latin American literature. Papers are invited that examine how authors have imagined love, sexuality, gender, and subjectivity, and how these representations reflect, challenge, or reconfigure social and cultural norms.
Particular attention may be given to constructions of gender and the beloved, including idealized, transgressive, marginalized, or resistant figures. From inherited tropes such as the Madonna–whore binary to more complex modern and contemporary representations, writers across the Iberian and Latin American worlds have reimagined love and subjectivity in diverse historical and social contexts. Possible topics include love and power, erotic desire and repression, affect and violence, gendered identities, feminist interventions, and the intersections of intimacy with class, race, identity, and modernity.
Studies of Spanish- and Portuguese-language writers from any period are welcome. Comparative and non-comparative approaches are equally encouraged, and methodologies are open, including comparative, feminist, and other critical perspectives.
This panel explores representations of love and its reversals—desire, rejection, violence, hate, and eroticism—in Peninsular and Latin American literature, with attention to gender, subjectivity, and social norms. Comparative or feminist approaches in Spanish/English/Portuguese are suitable, but other approaches would also be considered. For questions, contact Dr. María Cristina Campos Fuentes, DeSales University, <camposcristina@hotmail.com>.