Cinematic poets: theoretical paradigms in two biographical narratives (Little Ashes and El cónsul de Sodoma)

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  • Alberto Mira Oxford Brookes University

Keywords:

biography, biopic, twentieth-century Spanish literature, Federico García Lorca, Little Ashes, Jaime Gil de Biedma, El cónsul de Sodoma

Abstract

Literary biography and its cinematic counterpart, the biopic, constitute areas of inquiry in thinking through paradigms for the representation of homosexuality. Every time a life is put into narrative terms, there are a series of attending pressures and conventions which have deep theoretical roots. In this article, such pressures are studies as they concern two recent films about the lives of Spanish poets Federico García Lorca (Little Ashes) and Jaime Gil de Biedma (El cónsul de Sodoma).
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No. 17 (2011): Queerencias. Literaturas hispánicas y estudios LGBTQ

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