Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature

Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature
Title Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature PDF eBook
Author B. Sifuentes-Jáuregui
Publisher Springer
Pages 249
Release 2002-02-22
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0230107281

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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.

Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction

Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
Title Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction PDF eBook
Author Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
Publisher University of New Mexico Press
Pages 238
Release 2017-05-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0826358160

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Contemporary Latin American fiction establishes a unique connection between masquerade, frequently motivated by stigma or trauma, and social justice. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines philosophy, history, psychology, literature, and social justice theory, this study delineates the synergistic connection between these two themes. Weldt-Basson examines fourteen novels by twelve different Latin American authors: Mario Vargas Llosa, Sergio Galindo, Augusto Roa Bastos, Fernando del Paso, Mayra Santos-Febres, Isabel Allende, Carmen Boullosa, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Marcela Serrano, Sara Sefchovich, Luisa Valenzuela, and Ariel Dorfman. She elucidates the varieties of social justice operating in the plots of contemporary Latin American novels: distributive, postmodern/feminist, postcolonial, transitional, and historical justices. The author further examines how masquerade and disguise aid in articulating the theme of social justice, why this is important, and how it relates to Latin American history and the historical novel.

Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003

Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003
Title Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 PDF eBook
Author Daniel Balderston
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 701
Release 2004
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0415306876

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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric. The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well as being of huge interest to those folowing Spanish or Portuguese language courses.

Warrior Women and Trans Warriors

Warrior Women and Trans Warriors
Title Warrior Women and Trans Warriors PDF eBook
Author Carolina Castellanos Gonella
Publisher Purdue University Press
Pages 186
Release 2024-11-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1612499821

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Latin American literature has depicted warrior woman and trans warrior characters in armed conflicts, but literary critics have not paid much attention to their empowerment. They also have critiqued these characters using traditional gender binary concepts or have viewed their access to power as evil or abnormal. Warrior Women and Trans Warriors: Performing Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature introduces a new perspective by analyzing how one trans warrior and two warrior women from three canonical novels contest traditional codes of behavior and appearance. It examines Pintada in the Mexican novel Los de abajo (1915); doña Bárbara in the Venezuelan novel Doña Bárbara (1929); and Diadorim in the Brazilian novel Grande sertão: veredas (1956). Warrior Women and Trans Warriors focuses on how these three characters challenge conventional norms and empower themselves by giving orders, using weapons, fighting, competing with other characters, exposing traditional gender ideologies, and transgressing sartorial gender rules. Drawing on trans theory, intersectionality, gender performance theory, and masculinities studies, this book argues that performing masculinities allow these characters to occupy the place of the most-desired position of their contexts.

Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003

Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003
Title Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 PDF eBook
Author Daniel Balderston
Publisher Routledge
Pages 701
Release 2004-02-12
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1134399596

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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric. The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well as being of huge interest to those folowing Spanish or Portuguese language courses.

The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry
Title The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry PDF eBook
Author Stephen M. Hart
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 340
Release 2018-03-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1108195628

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The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of Latin American poetry and includes separate chapters on Colonial poetry, Romanticism/modernism, the avant-garde, conversational poetry, and contemporary poetry. Part II contains six succinct essays on the major figures Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Gabriela Mistral, César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and Octavio Paz. Part III analyses specific and distinctive trends within the poetic canon, including women's, LGBT, Quechua, Afro-Hispanic, Latino/a and New Media poetry. This Companion also contains a guide to further reading as well as an essay on the best English translations of Latin American poetry. It will be a key resource for students and instructors of Latin American literature and poetry.

Cult of Defeat in Mexico’s Historical Fiction

Cult of Defeat in Mexico’s Historical Fiction
Title Cult of Defeat in Mexico’s Historical Fiction PDF eBook
Author B. Price
Publisher Springer
Pages 291
Release 2012-06-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1137008563

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Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss examines recent Mexican historical novels that highlight the mistakes of the nineteenth century for the purpose of responding to present crises.