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Transvestism, masculinity, and Latin American literature : genders share flesh

By analyzing works by Alejo Carpentier, José Donoso, Severo Sarduy and Manuel Puig (author of Kiss of the Spiderwoma n), alongside critical works in gender studies and queer theory, Sifuentes-Jáuregui shows how transvestism operates not only to destabilize, but often to affirm sexual, gender, national and political identities.
Print Book, English, 2002
Palgrave, New York, 2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780312294403, 9780312294410, 0312294409, 0312294417
47927648
Introduction: Chronicle of Gender Foretold: Transvestism and the Difficulty of Gender Rereading Los 41 : Nationhood and the Scandal of Effeminacy Fashion's Lost Word: Carpentier Writes Woman Gender without Limits: The Erotics of Masculinity in El lugar sin limites Transvestite and Homobaroque Endings: Sarduy on the Verge of Reading Kissing the Body Politic: Engendering Heterosexuality/Screening the Homosocial