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A 5 page paper which examines how the novel treats sexuality and homosexuality. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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File: TG15_TGkiss.rtf
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paper properly! There couldnt be two more unlikely cellmates than Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui Paz, protagonists of Argentinean author
Manuel Puigs 1976 novel, Kiss of the Spider Woman. Molina was a blatantly effeminate homosexual who was incarcerated for molesting an under-age boy. He dressed in floral prints
and decorates his cell as if it were a bordello. Valentin is a heterosexual journalist and political activist, who exhibits characteristics of homophobia. His imprisonment is not for
any sex crime, but rather, for illegally providing his passport to one of the members of the Latin American underground. The theme of sexuality is ever-present throughout the novel,
as Puig intermingles the taboo of homosexuality with revolutionary politics. In terms of homosexuality, which is condemned by the establishment, as are liberal political movements, Puig appears to be
asking his readers, how can both, if participated in by consenting adults, be wrong merely because the mainstream declares it to be so? One critic noted that in Kiss
of the Spider Woman, "Storytelling and moviegoing, like sex... frees the self from isolation by filling it with the interests of the other" (Norris 189). However, it renders the
person who engages in the sexual fantasy "vulnerable to ideological contamination at the very moment they promise liberation" (Norris 189). Molina, a window dresser by trade, indulges himself in
a fantasy world of movie queens. He fancies that his masculine side has been overtaken by his feminine ideal, Leni Lamaison, a film heroine who has fallen in love
with a Nazi officer during World War II in a musical entitled, "Her Real Glory." It is easy for Molina to identify with Lenis plight, for when he adopts
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