This article examines the investments of Justin Torres’s debut novel, We the Animals (2012), with Latinidad, queerness and masculinity under the framework of opacity proposed by Edouard Glissant. I argue that Torres’s novel employs opacity—the refusal to be legible to the gaze of a dominant Other—as a way of grappling with the tensions between Latinx and queer identities and textualizing the relationship between queerness and other forms of structural marginalization. I read the novel’s aesthetic strategies in relation to opacity and the institutionalization of creative writing and consider the politics of the novel within a genealogy of US Puerto Rican coming-of-age novels and their relationship to the literary market. Finally, I read the relationships among masculinity, queerness and Latinidad the novel presents and illustrate how it ultimately presents a blueprint for Latinx queer liberation.

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“为了不透明”：贾斯汀·托雷斯 (Justin Torres) 的《我们这些动物》中的古怪和拉丁语

本文考察了贾斯汀·托雷斯 (Justin Torres) 的处女作《我们这些动物》(We the Animals, 2012) 在爱德华·格利森 (Edouard Glissant) 提出的不透明框架下对拉丁、酷儿和阳刚之气的投资。我认为托雷斯的小说采用了不透明性——拒绝在占主导地位的他者的注视下清晰可见——作为应对拉丁裔和酷儿身份之间紧张关系的一种方式，并将酷儿与其他形式的结构性边缘化之间的关系文本化。我阅读了与不透明性和创造性写作制度化相关的小说美学策略，并在美国波多黎各成年小说的谱系中考虑小说的政治及其与文学市场的关系。最后，我读到了男子气概之间的关系，