Crossing sex and gender in Latin America

Crossing sex and gender in Latin America / Vek Lewis.

Author/creator	Lewis, Vek
Other author/creator	ProQuest (Firm)
Format	Electronic and Book
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Description	271 pages
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Subject(s)	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.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction note	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2009053916

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