Lewis, Vek. <br/><br/>
Crossing sex and gender in Latin America / 
Vek Lewis. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York, NY :  Palgrave Macmillan,  2010. 
 - 271 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-264) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780230104020 (alk. paper) 0230104029 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009053916 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Latin American literature--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Latin American literature--History and criticism.--21st century<br/>Transgender people in literature.<br/>Gender identity in literature.<br/>Motion pictures--History--Latin America--20th century.<br/>Motion pictures--History--Latin America--21st century.<br/>Transgender people in motion pictures.<br/>Gender identity in motion pictures.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ 7081  / L673c 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>860.9/35266