Dos hombres y un clóset: un estudio transatlántico de la experiencia y el deseo homosexual en la poesí­a de Xavier Villaurrutia y Luis Cernuda

Abstract

In this study I carry out a transatlantic comparison between two poets: Luis Cernuda of the Generation of ’27 to represent Spain and Xavier Villaurrutia of Los Contemporáneos to represent Mexico. In order to carry out the comparison I use the complete range of their works of poetry, however in particular I focus my critical gaze on Villaurrutia’s Nostalgia de la muerte and Cernuda’s Los placeres prohibidos in order to analyze and emphasize the three main elements of what I deem “the gay experience” and homoerotic desire within their body of works, those being the representation of: The closet, coming out of the closet and homoeroticism itself.