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Author:

Lewis, Vek

Title:

Crossing sex and gender in Latin America / Vek Lewis.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

271 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

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 and index.

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 Guti©♭rrez's el Rey de la habana and Mario Bellatin's Sal©đn de belleza -- Trans bodies, popular culture and (national) identity in crisis: Luis Zapata's La hermana secreta de Ang©♭lica Mar©Ưa and Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena vestida de pena -- Scandalous embodiments, shameful citizenships: loca and travesti subjectivities in the work of Pedro Lemebel.

ISBN:

0230104029 (alk. paper)
9780230104020 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)497884503

LCCN:

2009053916

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)