Hispanic Issues Online volume 20, Freakish Encounters: Constructions of the Freak in Hispanic Cultures, explores the cultural construction of the figure of the freak in Spanish and Latin American cultural productions as a subject that lies outside what official and legitimized discourses consider the normative in a precise historical, cultural, social, and geopolitical context. The 16 original contributions to the volume approach freaks in the Hispanic world in various manifestations—the grotesque, the deformed, the disabled, the visually/morally/socially excluded, the indígena, the terrorist, the masculine woman, the antihero, the homosexual, the dandy, among others—and put special emphasis on how this figure has been appropriated by art to produce socio-political interpretations in modern societies, turning the freak into a lucrative figure which, be it mocked, marginalized, dehumanized or admired, is an integral part of any society. By uncovering and giving visibility to this set of silenced voices relegated to the margins of history from a historical, sociological, literary, and theoretical perspective, this volume will appeal to Hispanists, scholars of teratology studies, disability studies, feminist studies, and queer studies, filling an important gap in the field of Hispanic cultural studies by bringing to center stage an interdisciplinary and marginal figure, and with it, an unexplored topic of academic research.
Introduction: Freakish Encounters: Constructions of the Freak in Hispanic Cultures
Sara Muñoz-Muriana and Analola Santana
1. El trágico viaje de una mujer salvaje mexicana al mundo civilizado
Roger Bartra
2. (Ex)centricidades: versiones del “freak” en el Siglo de Oro
Luis F. Avilés
3. The Western Hemisphere’s Original Freaks: Indigenous Peoples and Doctrines of Dispossession.
Arturo Arias
4. (De)Mythologizing the Disabled: Chilean Freaks in Roberto Bolaño’s El Tercer Reich and Estrella distante
Antonio Córdoba
5. La vagina-ojo y otros monstruos gineco-escópicos
Carlos A. Jáuregui and Paola Uparela Reyes
6. Performance art: El cuerpo freak de Rocío Boliver (La Congelada de Uva)
Josefina Alcázar
7. Novel Desire: Seeing Female Masculinity in Fortunata y Jacinta
Julia Chang
8. El dandi como friki: Gómez Carrillo
Ricardo de la Fuente Ballesteros
9. The Display of Homosexuality in 1920s Spain: The Hermaphrodite, Eccentricity and Álvaro Retana
Noël Valis
10. Accounting for Disability in Mexico: Teletón and the Infantilization of Capital
Susan Antebi
11. Urban Difference ‘On the Move’: Disability and Mobility in the Spanish Film El cochecito (Marco Ferreri, 1960)
Benjamin Fraser
12. Nuyorican Fairy Tales: Allegories of Existence and Bare Survival in Migdalia Cruz’s Fur and Eddie Sánchez’s Icarus
Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez
13. Freaking Talk to her
Ángel Loureiro
14. La dialéctica de lo freak. Víctimas y terroristas en dos novelas españolas de principios del siglo XXI
Gonzalo Martín de Marcos
15. España y sus monstruos: la memoria de la violencia terrrorista
Txetxu Aguado
16. Copi: “Seremos monstruos monstruosos”
Daniel Link
Afterword: Powers of the Freak
David Castillo and William Eggington
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