1st Edition

Cultural Representations of Queer Aging in Spain

Edited By Heather Jerónimo, Raquel Medina Copyright 2025
238 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity in Spanish culture with wider implications for queer aging studies research. The volume builds on theoretical foundations established by queer... Read more

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

Heather Jerónimo and Raquel Medina

 

Chapter 1: Reinscribing the Older Lesbian Subject on the Periphery: Age, Disability, and Abjection in Salir del ropero (2019)

Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso

 

Chapter 2: The Tribe’s Power: Older Lesbians and New Beginnings in Elogio del Happy End (2012) by Isabel Franc

Garbiñe Vidal-Torreira

 

Chapter 3: Drawn from Memory: Queer Aging and Reparative Reading in Marina Velasco Marta’s Que no se olvide (2023)

Caroline B. Colquhoun

 

Chapter 4: Age, Success, and Struggle in Jaime de Armiñán’s Mi querida señorita (1972)

Alicia Herraiz Gutiérrez

 

Chapter 5: Documenting Aging as a Trans Experience in Cantando en las azoteas (2022)

Raquel Medina

 

Chapter 6: Veneno (2020): Resistance, Trangender Rage, and Resilience Despite Invisibilization and Discrimination

Hernando C. Gómes Prada  

 

Chapter 7: Generativity, Intergenerationality, and Older Gay Men in Contemporary Spanish Cinema

Christopher R. Carter

 

Chapter 8: Doce Fábulas (2007) by Lluís Maria Todó as a Queer Aging Archive of Barcelona

Heather Jerónimo

 

Chapter 9: And the Ghosts Danced With Us: Intergenerational Dialogues in AIDS Performance

Isaias Fanlo

 

Index

 

 

 

Biography

Heather Jerónimo is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Northern Iowa, USA.

Raquel Medina is a visiting research fellow at Aston University, UK, and Dean of Area Studies at International Education of Students (IES Abroad Barcelona).