Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature

Genders Share Flesh

By: B. Sifuentes-Jauregui

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Hardcover | 23 February 2002 | Edition Number 1

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This book is about transvestism and the performance of gender in Latin American literature and culture. Ben. Sifuentes-Jauregui explores the figure of the transvestite and his/her relation to the body through a series of canonical Latin American texts. By analyzing works by Alejo Carpentier, Jose Donoso, Severo Sarduy and Manuel Puig (author of Kiss of the Spiderwoma n), alongside critical works in gender studies and queer theory, Sifuentes-Jauregui shows how transvestism operates not only to destabilize, but often to affirm sexual, gender, national and political identities.

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'A truly exceptional and extraordinarily acute reflection on transvestism and the performance of gender....' - Sylvia Molloy, President of the Modern Language Association & Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at New York University

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Chronicle of Gender Foretold: Transvestism and the Difficulty of Gender	p. 1
Nation and the Scandal of Effeminacy: Rereading Los "41"	p. 15
Fashion's Lost Word: Carpentier Writes Woman	p. 53
Gender without Limits: The Erotics of Masculinity in El lugar sin limites	p. 87
Transvestite and Homobaroque Twirls: Sarduy on the Verge of Reading Structuralism/Psychoanalysis/Deconstruction	p. 119
Kissing the Body Politic: Engendering Heterosexuality/Screening the Homosocial	p. 151
Notes	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 223
Index	p. 237
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Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature

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