The journey of Teresita: galician sexile in early 20th century Argentina
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https://doi.org/10.1344/abriu2024.13.8Keywords:
sexual dissidence, sexile, queer history, trans history, GaliciaAbstract
This article reflects on the possibility of Argentina being a preferred destination for the Galician sexile in the early 20th century. Understanding sexile as the forced migration of sexual dissidence, we will review some examples focusing on Teresita, a sexual dissident from A Coruña who gained international fame for transgressing normative sexual boundaries. Her story gives an account of the community that awaited many sexiled Galicians in Buenos Aires at that time, as well as the attempts of the authorities to sanitize the nation. In this way, it allows us to situate a context in which spaces, displacements, and even artistic trends such as the cuplé are linked. In summary, we maintain that Teresita’s story, her comings and goings, and the analysis of her relational circle, represent elements for analysing the possible shared itineraries of a part of the Galician population whose lives have been forgotten and silenced by official narratives.
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