Homoerotic Sensibility in Gypsy Ballads

Authors

  • Luis Antonio de Villena

Abstract

This paper defends that Federico García Lorca’s Gypsy Ballads, far from being a neo-popular work that sings of the Andalusian region; it is a hymn to absolute sex. Gypsy Ballads means open and free exaltation of sexuality, which is expressed through praise and description of masculine positiveness, and through the different faces of virile and macho essence. This paper deals with the elements that ballad after ballad show the predominance of masculine nature, which is extolled by the poet as a choice of his sexual interest. Without making an allusion to biography, Lorca’s homoerotism is stated this way in the very poetic text.

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Published

2011-10-14

Issue

No. 2 (2011)

Section

ARTICLES

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Homoerotic Sensibility in Gypsy Ballads. (2011). Castilla. Estudios De Literatura, 2, 501-516. https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/castilla/article/view/79