Crossing sex and gender in Latin America / Vek Lewis.

Author/creator Lewis, Vek
Other author ProQuest (Firm)
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Description271 pages
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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.

Contents 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 Gutiérrez'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 Angélica María and Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena vestida de pena -- Scandalous embodiments, shameful citizenships: loca and travesti subjectivities in the work of Pedro Lemebel.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009053916

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