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This	   dissertation	   examines	   lesbian	   and	   queer	   desire	   in	   texts	   in	   Catalan	   and	   Spanish	   written	   in Barcelona,	  Montevideo,	  and	  Buenos	  Aires	  from	  the	  1960s	  to	  the	  present.	  In	  the	  texts,	  desire	  includes but	  is	  not	  limited	  to	  the	  erotic;	  it	  encompasses	  issues	  of	  queer	  textuality,	  relationality,	  and	  literary transmission.	   I	   focus	  on	   the	  works	  of	   three	   authors	  who	  have	   spent	   the	  majority	  of	   their	   lives	   in Barcelona.	  However,	   the	   city	   appears	   almost	   incidentally	   in	   their	  works;	   the	   genealogies	   that	   the authors	  trace	  are	  transnational. The	  texts	  combine	  literal	  movement	  (through	  exile	  or	  diaspora)	  and	  a	  metaphorical	  sense	  of being	   “out	   of	   place”	   that	   prompts	   writers	   to	   take	   refuge	   in	   writing.	   I	   demonstrate	   that	   despite depicting	  affinities	  beyond	   the	   family	  and	  nation,	   the	  works	  reveal	   the	  persistence	  of	   familial	  and national	  ties,	  albeit	  in	  spectral	  or	  queer	  ways.	  Rather	  than	  tracing	  continuous	  lines	  of	  descent	  that emphasise	   origins,	   the	   works	   are	   principally	   concerned	   with	   futurity	   and	   fragmentation,	   as	   in Michel	  Foucault’s	  reading	  of	  genealogy. Chapter	  One	  on	  Maria-­‐Mercè	  Marçal’s	  La	  passió	  segons	  Renée	  Vivien	  (1994)	  traces	  a	  literary genealogy	   from	   Sappho	   to	   Renée	   Vivien	   in	   fin	   de	   siècle	   Paris	   to	   Marçal.	   The	   novel	   represents	   a merging	  of	  literary	  desire	  and	  erotic	  desire;	  Marçal’s	  search	  for	  symbolic	  mothers	  turns	  out	  to	  be	  a search	  for	  symbolic	  lovers	  that	  is	  oriented	  towards	  the	  present	  and	  future. In	  Chapter	  Two,	  I	  posit	  that	  in	  Cristina	  Peri	  Rossi’s	  La	  nave	  de	  los	  locos	  (1984)	  “happiness” consists	   of	   being	   open	   to	   chance	   and	   unpredictability	   unlike	   in	   conventional	   “happy”	   scripts	   in which	   a	   valuable	   life	   is	   believed	   to	   consist	   of	   (heterosexual)	   marriage,	   children,	   and	   property ownership.	   In	   Part	   II	   I	   argue	   that	   through	   fragmentation,	   allegory,	   and	   ambiguity,	   Peri	   Rossi’s	  El libro	   de	   mis	   primos	   (1969)	   contests	   authoritarian	   discourse	   without	   itself	   becoming	   a	   site	   of hegemonic	  meaning.	  In	  inviting	  the	  reader’s	  collaboration,	  it	  ensures	  authorial	  legacy. Part	   I	   of	  Chapter	  Three	   is	   an	  analysis	  of	   the	   temporality	  of	  obsession	   in	  Flavia	  Company’s Querida	   Nélida	   (1988).	   I	   propose	   that	   obsession	   and	   melancholia	   may	   point	   to	   a	   utopian	   future rather	  than	  signalling	  an	  entrapment	  in	  the	  past.	  My	  study	  of	  Melalcor	  (2000)	  in	  Part	  II	  suggests	  that queer	  forms	  of	  relationality	  that	  are	  not	  centred	  on	  procreation	  and	  monogamy	  offer	  ethical	  models of	  sociality.	  Part	  III	  focusses	  on	  Company’s	  return	  to	  biological	  family	  in	  Volver	  antes	  que	  ir	  (2012) and	  Por	  mis	  muertos	  (2014).	  The	  resurgence	  in	  these	  texts	  of	  family	  members	  who	  have	  died	  signals that	  just	  as	  the	  queer	  haunts	  the	  family,	  the	  family	  haunts	  the	  queer.

Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona: Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company