Transvestism, Masculinity, And Latin American Literature
This book is the first of its kind—a comprehensive account of transvestism and the performance of gender in Latin American literature and culture. Ben. Sifuentes-Jaureguí 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, José Donoso, Severo Sarduy, and Manuel Puig, alongside critical works in gender studies and queer theory, Sifuentes-Jaureguí shows how transvestism operates not...
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The first book-length and authored study of transvestism & performativity in Latin American literature.Sylvia MolloyA truly exceptional and extraordinarily acute reflection on transvestism and the performance of gender...
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Chronicle of Gender Foretold: Transvestism and the Difficulty of Gender1Ch. 1Nation and the Scandal of Effeminacy: Rereading Los "41"15Ch. 2Fashion's Lost Word: Carpentier Writes Woman53Ch. 3Gender without Limits: The Erotics of Masculinity in El lugar sin limites87Ch. 4Transvestite and Homobaroque Twirls: Sarduy on the Verge of Reading Structuralism/ Psychoanalysis/Deconstruction119Ch. 5Kissing the Body Politic: Engendering Heterosexuality/ Screening the Homosocial151Notes193Bibliography223Index237
\ Sylvia MolloyA truly exceptional and extraordinarily acute reflection on transvestism and the performance of gender...\ \
