Transvestism,Masculinity,and Latin American Literature: Genders Share Flesh
This book is the first of its kind—a comprehensive account of transvestism and the performance of gender in Latin American literature and culture. It 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-Jauregui shows how transvestism operates not only to destabilize,...
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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...\ \
