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

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

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Literary Criticism

Publisher Price: $54.99

ISBN10: 0312294417
ISBN13: 9780312294410
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Apr 2 2002
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
This book is about transvestism and the performance of gender in Latin American literature and culture. Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui 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, José Donoso, Severo Sarduy and Manuel Puig (author of Kiss of the Spiderwoma n), alongside critical works in gender studies and queer theory, Sifuentes-Jáuregui shows how transvestism operates not only to destabilize, but often to affirm sexual, gender, national and political identities.

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