# Bodies Beyond Labels: Finding Joy in the Shadows of Imperial Spain - Hardcover

by **Daniel Holcombe** (Editor), **Frederick a. de Armas** (Editor)

_Bodies beyond Labels_ explores moments of joy and joyful expressions of self-identity, intimacy, sexuality, affect, friendship, social relationships, and religiosity in imperial Spanish cultures, a period when embodiments of such joy were shadowed by comparatively more constrictive social conventions.

  

Viewed in this manner, joy frames historic references to gender, sexuality, and present-day concepts of queerness through homoeroticism, non-labelled bodies, gender fluidity, and performativity. This collection reveals diverse glimmers of joy through a variety of genres, including plays, poems, novels, autobiographies, biblical narratives, and civil law texts, among others. The book is divided into five categories: theatrical works that use mythology to enjoy themes of homoeroticism; narrative prose and visual arts that reveal public and private homoerotic expressions; scopophilia within garden and museum spaces that make possible joyous observations of non-labelled and non-corporeal bodies; biblical narratives and epistolary works that signal religious transgressions of gender and friendship; and sexual geographies explored in historic and legal documents.

  

As new generations develop more nuanced senses of gender and sexual identities, _Bodies beyond Labels_ strives to provide new academic optics, as framed by non-labelled bodies, queer theorizations, joy in unexpected places, and the light that has historically (re)emerged from the shadows.

### Author Biography

**Daniel Holcombe** is an associate professor of Spanish at Georgia College & State University.  
**Frederick A. de Armas** is Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago..  

**Number of Pages:** 346

**Dimensions:** 0.79 x 9.06 x 6.06 IN

**Publication Date:** July 21, 2024

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