What is it about?

This article focuses on one of Lorca's Suites ('Surtidores') and through close reading uncovers the poetic subject's hesitancy about the roles assumed in heterosexual romance.

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Why is it important?

This is an early discussion of how a half-occluded desire emerges in Lorca's posthumously published collection of Suites (1983). The important site of the garden emerges.

Perspectives

Opens a path that I pursue in In the LIght of Contradiction (2010).

Dr Roberta Ann Quance

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This page is a summary of: The Trouble with Gender in Lorca's Suites: "Surtidores", Hispanic Review, January 2006, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/hir.2006.0038.
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