SOURCE: Arias, Consuelo. “Writing the Female Body in the Texts of Cristina Peri Rossi: Excess, Monumentality and Fluidity,” In Literature and Homosexuality, edited by Michael J. Meyer, pp. 183–203. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.

In the following essay, Arias discusses Peri Rossi's role as a gay writer and how her works Solitario de amor, “El testigo,” and “Nochevieja en el Daniel's” function as lesbian texts.

Why is it that the Lesbian seems like a shadow—a shadow with/in woman, with/in writing?

Writing the Lesbian means writing someone who does not yet exist.

Elizabeth Meese, (Sem)Erotics. Theorizing Lesbian Writing

A Lesbian who does not reinvent the word is a Lesbian in the process of disappearing.

Nicole Brossard, The Aerial Letter

In the ocean between night and day, word and word, between you and me. In the liminal space—between English and French—language and meaning, poetry and prose, in the...