Abstract

GUTIERREZ, León Guillermo  and  GUADARRAMA, Alejandro. The Statue of Salt, by Salvador Novo. Urbanism and homosexual identity in Mexico City, 1917-1921. Valenciana [online]. 2018, vol.11, n.22, pp.37-52. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i22.366.

Salvador Novo (1904-1974), in his autobiography The Statue of Salt (1998), captured the events of the homosexual life at Mexico City from 1917 to 1921. This work is intended, based of Novo´s narration, to do an analysis of how, despite being a transgressive behavior, the homoeroticism was a fairly widespread practice in different social strata. Mexico City not only arises as a scenario, public and private spaces where actions are developed, it´s role is starring in the novel. For that we analyze how the urbanism determines and conditions the construction of gay identity. Thus we notice that the homosexual becomes agent of instability in the structuring of the network of social relations, and participates in there configuration of the places of a city.

Keywords : The Statue of Salt; Salvador Novo; identity; homosexual; urbanism.

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