Resumen de The Shape of Sex. Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance , by Leah DeVun
In the prologue to her novel In the Dream House (Graywolf Press, 2019), the American writer Carmen Maria Machado uses the concept of ‘archival silence’, borrowing it from professor Saidiya Hartman, to illustrate what she defines a difficult truth: “sometimes stories are destroyed, and sometimes they are never uttered in the first place; either way something very large is irrevocably missing from our collective history.” In this regard, the Cuban American queer theo- rist José Esteban Muñoz in his pivotal Cruising Utopia. The Then and There of Queer Futurity (nyu Press, 2009) wrote: “queerness has an especially vexed relationship to evidence ... When the historian of queer experience attempts to document a queer past, there is often a gatekeeper, representing a straight present."
