A Carnival for the Lesbian "I": Gilda Salinas' Short Stories Authors Elena Madrigal Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México Keywords: Gilda Salinas, Mexican lesbian literature, first-person narrative, night life, oral tradition, festivity Abstract Gilda Salinas disrupts the short-story conventions by making of Del destete al desempance. Cuentos lésbicos y un colado an episode in the night-life of a merry lesbian in Mexico City. Beginning in the seventies, the lesbian party-goer narrates "with her own voice" her adventures throughout lesbian night clubs now closed, rescuing places of homosexual life. The rendering of the oral tradition allows for the preservation of puns and linguistic codes that would have otherwise vanished along with the generations that created them. The author's strategies carnavalize the lesbian topic. They also legitimize the ways lesbians create to express and be themselves in time and place. Gilda Salinas has enriched the literary means, the visibility, and the diversity both in the lives and narratives of the lesbian/s. 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).
