TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Vek
TI  - Crossing sex and gender in Latin America
SN  - 9780230104020 (alk. paper)
AV  - PQ 7081 L673c 2010
U1  - 860.9/35266 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Latin American literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Transgender people in literature
KW  - Gender identity in literature
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Latin America
KW  - History
KW  - Transgender people in motion pictures
KW  - Gender identity in motion pictures
N1  - 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
ER  -