Real machos and fake saints: Yo no tengo la culpa de haber nacido tan sexy by Eduardo Mendicutti, between the global and the local Authors Dieter Ingenschay Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Keywords: Eduardo Mendicutti, camps aesthetics, pastiche of religious discourse, leather scene, globalization of gay life in Spain Abstract In Yo no tengo la culpa de haber nacido tan sexy (1997), Eduardo Mendicutti sends his still beautiful transexual protagonist, Rebecca de Windsor, on a pilgrimage to seven monasteries in search of religious perfection and the unification with the beloved Lord. The text unfords its camp aesthetics through a pastiche of styles and references to the mystical poetry of the Spanish baroque, particularly to its immediate intertext Las Moradas of Santa Teresa de Ávila. At the same time, Mendicutti describes the consequences of globalization of homosexual practices and makes a subject matter of the particularities of the "modern" gay/queer life in Spain at the end of the twentieth-century, twenty years after the dictator's death. Downloads PDF (Català) Issue No. 17 (2011): Queerencias. Literaturas hispánicas y estudios LGBTQ Section Dossier License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
