Figuras de santidad en el virreinato de Perú: lo queer, la alteridad

Sainthood and its manifestations are a subject that has become fundamental when doing cultural studies of the colony in Latin America; it is through the construction of saintly figures that we can identify social desires and diverse ethnic, class and gender tensions, but we can also encounter much more hybrid and fluid spaces. This essay, part of my doctoral dissertation, presents catholic sainthoods in the Viceroyalty of Peru, through the cases of Santa Rosa de Lima and San Martin de Porras. By studying mysticism, my proposal aims to think saintly figures as queer subjects, that is to say, as subjects who challenged, altered and questioned colonial structures.