Research Catalog
Crossing sex and gender in Latin America
- Title
- Crossing sex and gender in Latin America / Vek Lewis.
- Author
- Lewis, Vek.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Details
- 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
- Bibliography (note)
- 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 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 10-3736
- ISBN
- 9780230104020 (alk. paper)
- 0230104029 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009053916
- OCLC
- YBP 2009053916
- Author
- Lewis, Vek.
- Title
- Crossing sex and gender in Latin America / Vek Lewis.
- Imprint
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 10-3736