No. 52 (2025): Decadents, Dissidents and Outcasts in the Fin-de-Siècle.

Between Naturalists, Symbolists and Decadents, the literature produced between 1880 and 1930 was full of marginalised or self-marginalised characters: eccentric, extravagant, perverted, weird, misanthropic, these so-called outcasts were often reinvented in the form of exceptional beings or ‘Chosen Ones’. Stigmatised and pathologised by criminology and psychology, they often appear in literature in an ambiguous way, revealing the contradictions of Latin American modernity: the growing presence of Afro-descendants in the cities, on the one hand, and the evolution of gender and sexuality norms associated with the emergence of the New Woman, on the other, bring with them the rejection of virility and the threat of feminisation of the national subject. The journal invites submissions of works that intersectionally address this proliferation of non-normative subjectivities, and the archive made up of textualities and a whole new vocabulary of affections, spaces, behaviour, subcultures or strategies of resistance. It is possible to ask: How is the universality of the erotic transformed according to the reconfigurations of gender and increasing racialisation? How does the body become a subject or a battleground for history? How does the discourse of non-belonging resist or justify the consolidation of the modern national subject? The dossier invites submissions of articles that develop these issues in Iberian and Ibero-American contexts, written in Portuguese, Spanish or English. Only papers submitted by researchers with a doctorate or, in the case of co-authorship, doctoral students in partnership with a second researcher with a doctorate will be accepted. All submissions are subject to blind peer review according to the rules for contributions.