You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution. The book s key contribution arguably is its nuanced discussion of Latin American trans vocabulary. Along with the greater visibility of gender diverse people in popular culture TV, film, novels, etc , Lewis asks us to think about the question of whether or not new and more complex portrayals of these individuals accompany their greater acknowledgment in culture.
This will be an important book in the growing field of Latin American LGBT theory, and will be useful to scholars who are teaching advanced courses on contemporary Spanish American fiction, especially gender-conscious scholars. The result is an important addition to queer and gender debates in Hispanophone and Anglophone worlds and their intersections. Lewis s focus on representations of transgendered subjects, with an emphasis on critiquing their reduction to national allegories or other similar figurative deployments, presents a lucid and convincing intervention into queer studies.
Authors : Vek Lewis. Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan New York. Edition Number : 1. Number of Pages : IX, Skip to main content. Search SpringerLink Search. Authors: Vek Lewis. Vek Lewis View author publications. Buying options eBook EUR Softcover Book EUR Hardcover Book EUR Learn about institutional subscriptions. Table of contents 8 chapters Search within book Search. Front Matter Pages i-ix.
Introduction: The persistence of vision s Vek Lewis Pages Grotesque Spectacles Vek Lewis Pages Authorizing Subjectivity Vek Lewis Pages Epilogue Vek Lewis Pages Back Matter Pages Back to top. About this book Signifying "others" or signs of life?
This book critically examines the ways in which crossing sex and gender is imagined in key cultural texts from contemporary Latin America. Unlike previous studies, Crossing Sex and Gender in Latin America does not hold that sexually diverse figures are always and only performative or allegorical and instead places the accent on questions of the presence or absence of an account of subjectivity in contemporary representation. Via analysis of selected films and literary works of Reinaldo Arenas, Mayra Santos-Febres, Pedro Lemebel, among others, the author reflects on the political implications of recent visions Keywords culture Figuration gender identity Nation Sex area studies.
