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The Language of the In-Between
Travestis, Post-hegemony, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru
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The Language of the In-Between
Travestis, Post-hegemony, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru
About this book
Often, the process of modern state formation is founded on the marginalization of certain groups, and Latin America is no exception. In The Language of the In-Between, Erika Almenara contends that literary production replicates this same process. Looking at marginalized communities in Chile and Peru, particularly writers who are travesti, trans, cuir/queer, and Indigenous, the author shows how these writers stake a claim for the liminal space that is neither one thing nor the other. This allows a freedom to expose oppression and to critique a national identity based on erasure. By employing a language of nonnormative gender and sexuality to dispute the state projects of modernity and modernization, the voice of the poor and racialized travesti evolves from powerlessness to become an agent of social transformation.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: There Was Something Different in the Way That Body Danced and Sang
- 1. Cuiring the Birth of the Modern(a) Nation-State in Chile and Peru
- 2. The Travesti as a Language of the “In-Between”
- 3. Pedro Lemebel: The Loca Travesti as a Site of Resistance
- 4. The “In-Between” in the Works of Giuseppe Campuzano and Claudia Salazar
- Epilogue: An Invitation to Opening
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index