La literatura lésbica puertorriqueña en la encrucijada de los géneros: Marta Aponte Alsina, Pedro Cabiya y Ana María Fuster Lavín

Abstract

This article analyzes the lesbian characters in Puerto Rican narrative and examines the strategies of visibility of sexual minorities. In the texts studied, lesbians are monstrous figures that reactivate topics of the gothic or science fiction tradition: vampires, zombies, serial killers or cyborgs. In so doing, they are at the crossroads of genres and gender, creating epistemic spaces with diffuse contours. These contributions to Puerto Rican lesbian literature thus participate in the revision of the national literary canon and the redefinition of its borders, through strategies of fragmentation, hybridization and literary zombification.

Keywords

• gothic novel
• science-fiction
• canon
• Puerto Rican literature
• queer literature