Pájaros enjaulados: homosexualidad y prisión en <i>Hombres sin mujer</i>

Emilio José Gallardo Saborido

doi:10.3989/aeamer.2010.v67.i1.333

Authors

Emilio José Gallardo Saborido University of Birmingham

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/aeamer.2010.v67.i1.333

Keywords:

Carlos Montenegro, Hombres sin mujer, Prison, Homosexuality, Hypermasculinity

Abstract

This article aims to focus on the interaction between homosexuality and prison in the novel by the Cuban writer Carlos Montenegro, titled Hombres sin mujer (1938). From a sociological approach to literature, we structurally analyze the homosexual notions and practices in a particular Cuban jail. In this regard, we specifically explain their components and the creation of self-explicative categories or ethnocategories. Furthermore, the order which constitutes these elements and the conflicts that dynamize them are studied. Finally, the article concludes considering the notion of homosexuality in prison as a tragedy; an idea that closes the novel.

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