Title: The cross-dressed Caribbean : writing, politics, sexualities /
Authors: Fumagalli, Maria Cristina,; Ledent, Bénédicte; Del Valle Alcalá, Roberto; Fumagalli, Maria Cristina,; Ledent, Bénédicte,; Del Valle Alcalá, Roberto,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Caribbean literature History and criticism.; Cross-dressers in literature.; Sex in literature; Caribbean literature.; Literature; Sex; Cross-dressers
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Revolutions in Drag -- The Transvestite and Cubanness in Severo Sarduy's De donde son los cantantes / Paula K. Sato -- A Revolution in Drag: Reinaldo Arenas, or the Insurrection of Excess / Roberto del Valle Alcala -- "Cyaan Live Split": Under-Dressing, Over-Performing, Transgendering, and the Uses of Camouflage in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven / Chantal Zabus -- "Not Woman Enough Everywhere": Gender, Nation, and Narration in the Work of Patrick Chamoiseau / Michael Niblett -- 2."Passing" through Time -- El habito hace al monje: Nineteenth-Century Cross-Dressing and (Bi-)Sexuality in Benitez-Rojo's Mujer en traje de batalla / Kerstin Oloff -- "Love the Drag ... but Your Purse Is on Fire!": Cross-Dressings in the Religious Imaginary of Aelred's Sin / Kelly Hewson -- Little Miss Muffet Meets Spider Anancy: The Use of Drag in Sistren's Muffet Inna All a Wi / Karina Smith -- Cross-Dressing and the Caribbean Imaginary in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber / Wendy Knepper -- 3.Theories in the Flesh -- The Caribbean and Transvestism / Mayra Santos Febres -- On Becoming an Indian Starboy / Shani Mootoo -- Crisscrossing Identities in Maryse Conde's Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? / Carine M. Mardorossian -- Tales Told under the San Fernando Hill / Lawrence Scott -- 4.Symptoms and Detours -- The Body of Vodou: Corporeality and the Location of Gender in Afro-Diasporic Religion / Roberto Strongman -- Helen in Her Yellow Dress: Dressing, Undressing, and Cross-Dressing in the Literature of the Contemporary Caribbean / Lizabeth Paravisini -- Defying Binarism: Cross-Dressing and Transdressing in Mayra Santos Febres's Sirena Selena vestida de pena and Rita Indiana Hernandez's La estrategia de Chochueca / Odile Ferly -- Broadcasters and Butterflies: Sexual Transgression as Cultural Critique in Dutch Caribbean Writing / Isabel Having.