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Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature

Genders Share Flesh

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  • © 2002

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  1. Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction Chronicle of Gender Foretold: Transvestism and the Difficulty of Gender

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    Pages 1-14

  3. Nation and the Scandal of Effeminacy: Rereading Los “41”

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    Pages 15-51

  4. Fashion’s Lost Word: Carpentier Writes Woman

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    Pages 53-86

  5. Gender without Limits: The Erotics of Masculinity in El lugar sin limites

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    Pages 87-118

  6. Transvestite and Homobaroque Twirls: Sarduy on the Verge of Reading Structuralism/ Psychoanalysis /Deconstruction

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    Pages 119-149

  7. Kissing the Body Politic: Engendering Heterosexuality/ Screening the Homosocial

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    Pages 151-191

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 193-240
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This book is about transvestism and the performance of gender in Latin American literature and culture. Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui 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 (author of Kiss of the Spiderwoma n), alongside critical works in gender studies and queer theory, Sifuentes-Jáuregui 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

About the author

BEN. SIFUENTES-JÁUREGUI is Assistant Professor of Latin American literature at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the program in Comparative Literature.

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