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In Lucía Miranda (1860), Rosa Guerra writes what seems at first glance a work that dialogues with the manuals of good manners for married women at the time. However, this article identifies an underlying pedagogical intent to the novel: it no longer presents a message that celebrates containment and monogamy, but one of “disobedience”--in Sara Ahmed’s terms--about feminine sexual desire that allows for the emergence of new interracial and homoerotic affectivities. Through this questioning of hegemonic affectivities via the exploration of queer desires, Guerra brings into potential contact bodies that theoretically should not desire one another and envisages a new organization for republican affinities
