Joseph M. Pierce 
Argentine Intimacies [EPUB ebook] 
Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890−1910

Winner of the 2020 Best Book in the Nineteenth Century Award presented by the Nineteenth Century Section of the Latin American Studies Association



As Argentina rose to political and economic prominence at the turn of the twentieth century, debates about the family, as an ideological structure and set of lived relationships, took center stage in efforts to shape the modern nation. In
Argentine Intimacies, Joseph M. Pierce draws on queer studies, Latin American studies, and literary and cultural studies to consider the significance of one family in particular during this period of intense social change: Carlos, Julia, Delfina, and Alejandro Bunge. One of Argentina’s foremost intellectual and elite families, the Bunges have had a profound impact on Argentina’s national culture and on Latin American understandings of education, race, gender, and sexual norms. They also left behind a vast archive of fiction, essays, scientific treatises, economic programs, and pedagogical texts, as well as diaries, memoirs, and photography.
Argentine Intimacies explores the breadth of their writing to reflect on the intersections of intimacy, desire, and nationalism, and to expand our conception of queer kinship. Approaching kinship as an interface of relational dispositions, Pierce reveals the queerness at the heart of the modern family. Queerness emerges not as an alternative to traditional values so much as a defining feature of the state project of modernization.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments



Introduction: The Bunge Family: Queerness, Kinship, and Modernity



1. Carlos Octavio Bunge: Queer Desire and Family Fictions



2. Sisters Writing, Sisters Reading: The Diaries of Julia and Delfina Bunge



3. Spectral Desires: Queering the Family Album



4. Family Pedagogy: The Institutionalization of Kinship



5. National Essays, Home Economics: The Argentine Oligarchy in Decline



Epilogue: Toward a Queer Latin American Studies



Notes

Works Cited

Index

Über den Autor

Joseph M. Pierce is Associate Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University, State University of New York.