Interseccionalidad y homosexualidad en Los delitos insignificantes y Contra natura, de Álvaro Pombo
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Martínez Expósito, Alfredo
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2016
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Archivum: Revista de la Facultad de Filología ISSN 0570-7218 Nº 66, 2016, pags. 137-164
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Two of Álvaro Pombo's most influential gay novels, Los delitos insignificantes (1986) and Contra natura (2005), share a common understanding of homosexuality which Pombo himself referred to as "homophobic homosexuality". This paper considers the main gay character's suicide that comes at the conclusion of both novels. It makes use of the notion of interseccionality (overlay and interlocking of multiple systems of oppression), which in Pombo's case is closely related to Spain's political context of gradual normalisation of non-heterosexual sexualities