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Crossing Sex and Gender in Latin America
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Signifying "others" or signs of life? This book critically examines the ways in which crossing sex and gender is imagined in key cultural texts from contemporary Latin America. Unlike previous studies, Crossing Sex and Gender in Latin America does not hold that sexually diverse figures are always and only performative or allegorical and instead places the accent on questions of the presence or absence of an account of subjectivity in contemporary representation. Via analysis of selected films and literary works of Reinaldo Arenas, Mayra Santos-Febres, Pedro Lemebel, among others, the author reflects on the political implications of recent visions (1985-2005).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Persistence of Vision(s): Sex and Gender Variance in the Past and Present
- 1 Thinking Figurations Otherwise: Reframing Dominant Knowledges of Sex and Gender Variance in Latin America
- 2 Grotesque Spectacles: The Janus Face of the State and Gender-Variant Bodies in Reinaldo Arenas
- 3 Life Is (More than) a Cabaret: Gender Crossing and āTransā Signification in Contemporary Cinema from Latin America
- 4 Authorizing Subjectivity: Eroticism, Epidemia, and the (In)validation of Bodies in Pedro Juan GutiĆ©rrezās El Rey de La Habana and Mario Bellatinās SalĆ³n de belleza
- 5 Trans Bodies, Popular Culture, and (National) Identity in Crisis: Luis Zapataās La hermana secreta de AngĆ©lica MarĆa and Mayra Santos-Febresās Sirena Selena vestida de pena
- 6 Scandalous Embodiments, Shameful Citizenships: Loca and Travesti Subjectivities in the Work of Pedro Lemebel
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index