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This book is the first of its kinda comprehensive account of transvestism and the performance of gender in Latin American literature and culture. Ben. Sifuentes-Jaureguiacute; 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, Joseacute; Donoso, Severo Sarduy, and Manuel Puig, alongside critical works in gender studies and queer theory, Sifuentes-Jaureguiacute; shows how transvestism operates not only to destabilize, but often to affirm sexual, gender, national, and political identities.Sifuentes-Jauregui, Ben is the author of 'Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature Genders Share Flesh', published 2002 under ISBN 9780312294410 and ISBN 0312294417.
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