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Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature
Genders Share Flesh
- 249 pages
- English
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About this book
This book is about transvestism and the performance of gender in Latin American literature and culture. Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui explores the figure of the transvestite and his/her relation to the body through a series of canonical Latin American texts. By analyzing works by Alejo Carpentier, José Donoso, Severo Sarduy and Manuel Puig (author of Kiss of the Spiderwoma n), alongside critical works in gender studies and queer theory, Sifuentes-Jáuregui shows how transvestism operates not only to destabilize, but often to affirm sexual, gender, national and political identities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Chronicle of Gender Foretold:Transvestism and the Difficulty of Gender
- Chapter 1 Nation and the Scandal of Effeminacy: Rereading Los “41”
- Chapter 2 Fashion’s Lost Word: Carpentier Writes Woman
- Chapter 3 Gender without Limits: The Erotics of Masculinity in El lugar sin límites
- Chapter 4 Transvestite and Homobaroque Twirls: Sarduy on the Verge of Reading Structuralism/Psychoanalysis/Deconstruction
- Chapter 5 Kissing the Body Politic: Engendering Heterosexuality/Screening the Homosocial
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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