Crossing sex and gender in Latin America
By: Vek Lewis.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: NEw York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230104020
Subjects: Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Latin American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Transgender people in literature; Gender identity in literature; Motion pictures -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century; Motion pictures -- Latin America -- History -- 21st century; Transgender people in motion pictures; Gender identity in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Thinking figurations otherwise: reframing dominant knowledges on sex/gender variance in Latin America; title: Grotesque spectacles: the Janus face of the State and gender variant bodies in Reinaldo Arenas; title: Life is (more than) a cabaret: gender crossing and "trans" signification in contemporary cinema from Latin America; title: Authorising subjectivity: eroticism, epidemia and the in/validation of bodies in Pedro Juan Gutiŕrez's el Rey de la habana and Mario Bellatin's Salón de belleza; title: Trans bodies, popular culture and (national) identity in crisis: Luis Zapata's La hermana secreta de Angélica María and Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena vestida de pena; title: Scandalous embodiments, shameful citizenships: loca and travesti subjectivities in the work of Pedro Lemebel.