Signifying 'others' or signs of life? This book critically examines the ways in which crossing sex and gender is imagined in key cultural texts from contemporary Latin America. INDICE: - Thinking Figurations Otherwise: Reframing Dominant Knowledges onSex/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, ShamefulCitizenships: Loca and Travesti Subjectivities in the Work of Pedro Lemebel
- ISBN: 978-0-230-10402-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 03/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés