“Si yo fuera un rancho, me llamaría tierra de nadie”: disidencia sexual y normalización gay en Tiempos mejores de Eduardo Mendicutti

Abstract

Eduardo Mendicutti is one of the most prominent authors of Spain in the literary representation of non-normative sexuality in recent decades. This paper discusses the construction of sexual dissidence in Mendicutti’s Tiempos mejores (1989), one of the eighties novels. From a perspective of sexual dissidence and queer studies it is analyzed the representation of non-normative sexuality in dialogue with the context of production and the rest of the Mendicutti’s work. The novel, which closes the work of the author in the eighties, it is important to think the sexual dissident in HIV-AIDS crisis's times of repression in the eighties in Spain. The conservative position of heteronormal regime and the gay conservadurism works as mechanisms of repression of sexual dissident, to build a homogeneous gay identity and tending to a hegemonic masculinity.