Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature : Genders Share Flesh,9780312294403

Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature : Genders Share Flesh

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780312294403
ISBN10: 0312294409
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2002-02-23
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This book is the first of its kind-a comprehensive account of transvestism and the performance of gender in Latin American literature and culture. It explores the figure of the transvestite and his/her relation to the body through a series of canonical Latin American texts. By analyzing works by Alejo Carpentier, Joseacute; Donoso, Severo Sarduy, and Manuel Puig, alongside critical works in gender studies and queer theory, Sifuentes-Jauregui shows how transvestism operates not only to destabilize, but often to affirm sexual, gender, national, and political identities.

Author Biography

Ben. Sifuentes-Jßuregui is Assistant Professor of Latin American literature at Rutgers University, where he teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the program in Comparative Literature.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction Chronicle of Gender Foretold: Transvestism and the Difficulty of Gender 1(14)
Nation and the Scandal of Effeminacy: Rereading Los ``41''
15(38)
Fashion's Lost Word: Carpentier Writes Woman
53(34)
Gender without Limits: The Erotics of Masculinity in El lugar sin limites
87(32)
Transvestite and Homobaroque Twirls: Sarduy on the Verge of Reading Structuralism/Psychoanalsis/Deconstruction
119(32)
Kissing the Body Politic: Engendering Heterosexuality/Screening the Homosocial
151(42)
Notes 193(30)
Bibliography 223(14)
Index 237

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