Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos-Febres: ¿transgresiones de espacio o espacio de ansgresiones?

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Autor principal: Kristian Van Haesendonck
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Publicado: The City University of New York 2003
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contents Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos-Febres: ¿transgresiones de espacio o espacio de ansgresiones? Kristian Van Haesendonck Sociología Cross Febres dressing Puerto Rico Transvestism This paper’s goal is to reflect, however briefly, on theimage of the transvestite in the novel Sirena Selena vestidade pena, by Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres.The paper analyzes how crossdressing functions as ametaphor to encompass the ambiguities of the AssociatedFree State, which has been described by several critics as a“postcolonial colony,” where identity and everything“light” is up for sale. By placing the narrative in theDominican Republic, Santos extends the Puerto Ricancolonial experience into a diasporic experience withinthe Caribbean, in the “context of desire” and its “First-World crossdressing.” In this way the transvestite alsoexpresses the contradictory reality that, at the end of the20th century, affects the Caribbean, whose countries arethe subject of a complex network of interests 2003 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37715206 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.2 Vol.XV
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spellingShingle Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos-Febres: ¿transgresiones de espacio o espacio de ansgresiones?
Kristian Van Haesendonck
Sociología
Cross
Febres
dressing
Puerto Rico
Transvestism
Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos-Febres: ¿transgresiones de espacio o espacio de ansgresiones? Kristian Van Haesendonck Sociología Cross Febres dressing Puerto Rico Transvestism This paper’s goal is to reflect, however briefly, on theimage of the transvestite in the novel Sirena Selena vestidade pena, by Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres.The paper analyzes how crossdressing functions as ametaphor to encompass the ambiguities of the AssociatedFree State, which has been described by several critics as a“postcolonial colony,” where identity and everything“light” is up for sale. By placing the narrative in theDominican Republic, Santos extends the Puerto Ricancolonial experience into a diasporic experience withinthe Caribbean, in the “context of desire” and its “First-World crossdressing.” In this way the transvestite alsoexpresses the contradictory reality that, at the end of the20th century, affects the Caribbean, whose countries arethe subject of a complex network of interests 2003 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37715206 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.2 Vol.XV
title Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos-Febres: ¿transgresiones de espacio o espacio de ansgresiones?
topic Sociología
Cross
Febres
dressing
Puerto Rico
Transvestism
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37715206