Crossing sex and gender in Latin America /
Lewis, Vek.
Crossing sex and gender in Latin America / Vek Lewis. - 1st ed. - New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 271 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-264) and index.
Thinking figurations otherwise: reframing dominant knowledges on sex and gender variance in Latin America -- Grotesque spectacles: the Janus face of the State and gender variant bodies in Reinaldo Arenas -- Life is (more than) a cabaret: gender crossing and "trans" signification in contemporary cinema from Latin America -- Authorising subjectivity: eroticism, epidemia and the in/validation of bodies in Pedro Juan Gutierrez's el Rey de la habana and Mario Bellatin's Salón de belleza -- Trans bodies, popular culture and (national) identity in crisis: Luis Zapata's La hermana secreta de Angelica Maria and Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena vestida de pena -- Scandalous embodiments, shameful citizenships: loca and travesti subjectivities in the work of Pedro Lemebel.
9780230104020 (alk. paper) 0230104029 (alk. paper)
2009053916
Latin American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Latin American literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Transgender people in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Motion pictures--History--Latin America--20th century.
Motion pictures--History--Latin America--21st century.
Transgender people in motion pictures.
Gender identity in motion pictures.
PQ 7081 / L673c 2010
860.9/35266
Crossing sex and gender in Latin America / Vek Lewis. - 1st ed. - New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 271 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-264) and index.
Thinking figurations otherwise: reframing dominant knowledges on sex and gender variance in Latin America -- Grotesque spectacles: the Janus face of the State and gender variant bodies in Reinaldo Arenas -- Life is (more than) a cabaret: gender crossing and "trans" signification in contemporary cinema from Latin America -- Authorising subjectivity: eroticism, epidemia and the in/validation of bodies in Pedro Juan Gutierrez's el Rey de la habana and Mario Bellatin's Salón de belleza -- Trans bodies, popular culture and (national) identity in crisis: Luis Zapata's La hermana secreta de Angelica Maria and Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena vestida de pena -- Scandalous embodiments, shameful citizenships: loca and travesti subjectivities in the work of Pedro Lemebel.
9780230104020 (alk. paper) 0230104029 (alk. paper)
2009053916
Latin American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Latin American literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Transgender people in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Motion pictures--History--Latin America--20th century.
Motion pictures--History--Latin America--21st century.
Transgender people in motion pictures.
Gender identity in motion pictures.
PQ 7081 / L673c 2010
860.9/35266