Transvestite Narratives In Nineteenth And Twentieth Century Hispanic Authors

Author : Nicola M. Gilmour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transvestite Narratives in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Hispanic Authors written by Nicola M. Gilmour and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers new insights into the works of canonical nineteenth-century authors. Emilia Pardo Bazan and Benito Perez Gald6s, and into those ofthe twentieth-centllT) writers, Cristina Peri Rossi and Antonio Gala. This work questions the view that these transvestite narratives subvert traditional images ofgender and the act of literary creation.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2744 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 2744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : María Dolores Costa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1560232781
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists written by María Dolores Costa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A-to-Z overview of modern Latina lesbian authors and performers in the United States, Latin America, and Spain. This book has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Lesbian Studies, volume 7, number 3 (2003).

Author : Erminia Passannanti
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vested Voices written by Erminia Passannanti and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at modern contemporary Italian literature, this book presents a study of authors who choose to write their narratives or poems from the sensitivity and sensibility of the opposite sex, and thus metaphorically try to penetrate and possess the body and psyche of the opposite sex, whether it be for political, provoking or literary reasons.

Author : Vinodh Venkatesh
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081650069X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body as Capital written by Vinodh Venkatesh and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through economic liberalization and the untethering of labor and production markets, masculinity as hegemon has entered a crisis stage. Renegotiated labor and familial orders have triggered a widespread cultural renegotiation of how masculinity operates and is represented. This holds especially true in Latin America. Addressing this, Vinodh Venkatesh uses contemporary Latin American literature to examine how masculinity is constructed and conceived. The Body as Capital centers socioeconomic and political concerns, anxieties, and paradigms on the male anatomy and on the matrices of masculinities presented in fiction. Developing concepts such as the “market of masculinities” and the “transnational theater of masculinities,” the author explains how contemporary fiction centers the male body and masculine expressions as key components in the relationship between culture, space, and global tensile forces. Venkatesh includes novels by canonical and newer writers from Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Peru, and Chile. He focuses on texts produced after 1990, coinciding with what has popularly been termed the neoliberal experiment. In addition to probing well-known novels such as La fiesta del Chivo and La mujer habitada and their accompanying body of criticism, The Body as Capital defines and examines several masculine tropes that will be of interest to scholars of contemporary Latin American literature and gender studies. Ultimately, Venkatesh argues for a more holistic approximation of discursive gender that will feed into other angles of criticism, forging a new path in the critical debates over gender and sexuality in Latin American writing.

Author : Debra A. Castillo
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145290331X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Easy Women written by Debra A. Castillo and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the topic of prostitution and "easy women" in Mexican literature. The figure of the prostitute or sexually liberated woman not only permeates Mexican folk songs and popular movies but stands at the crossroads of its national literary culture. In Easy Women, Debra A. Castillo focuses on the prostitute, or the woman perceived as such, in order to ask why this character exerts such a hold on the Mexican imagination. Combining early twentieth-century novels, current best-selling pulp fiction, and testimonial narratives, Castillo explores how Mexican writers have positioned the "easy woman" in their works. In each example the transgressive woman -- marked by an active sexuality -- serves a crucial narrative function, one that both promotes and challenges myths about women on the continuum of sexual promiscuity. Ending with a discussion based on a series of in-depth interviews with sex workers in Tijuana, Castillo highlights the complexities and ambiguities of these women's professional and personal lives. Bridging Latin American literary and cultural criticism, gender studies, and studies of Mexican society, Easy Women provides a sophisticated and groundbreaking examination of the place of the sexually liberated woman in contemporary Mexican culture.

Author : Vicki Ruíz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195374780
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Out of the Shadows written by Vicki Ruíz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Out of the Shadows was the first full study of Mexican-American women in the twentieth century. Beginning with the first wave of Mexican women crossing the border early in the century, historian Vicki L. Ruiz reveals the struggles they have faced and the communities they have built. In a narrative enhanced by interviews and personal stories, she shows how from labor camps, boxcar settlements, and urban barrios, Mexican women nurtured families, worked for wages, built extended networks, and participated in community associations--efforts that helped Mexican Americans find their own place in America. She also narrates the tensions that arose between generations, as the parents tried to rein in young daughters eager to adopt American ways. Finally, the book highlights the various forms of political protest initiated by Mexican-American women, including civil rights activity and protests against the war in Vietnam. For this new edition of From Out of the Shadows, Ruiz has written an afterword that continues the story of the Mexicana experience in the United States, as well as outlines new additions to the growing field of Latina history.

Author : Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603296247
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sphinx written by Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At his boardinghouse in Rio de Janeiro, the Englishman James Marian is seen as handsome but eccentric. Then another boarder learns Marian's secret: a fusion of a female head and a male body, Marian is the creation of a surgeon with occult powers. Despite his wealth and mysterious abilities, Marian is unable to live fully as either a man or a woman, traveling the world in order to repress his sexual desire and withdraw from society. Sphinx explores the binaries of science and magic, body and spirit, male and female, attraction and horror, presenting its sexually ambiguous protagonist with sympathy. Ornately descriptive, this 1908 neo-gothic novel exemplifies the era's taste for the sensual and the fantastic. With echoes of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it stands as a classic of Brazilian science fiction.

Author : Akkadia Ford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100037906X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trans New Wave Cinema written by Akkadia Ford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a critical cultural study of the Trans New Wave as a cinematic genre and explores its emergence in the twenty-first century. Drawing on a diverse range of texts, the cultural, social, aesthetic and ethical implications of the genre are placed within the context of rapidly changing understandings of gender diversity. From the cinematic borderlands of independent film festivals to wider public recognition via digital technologies, the genre encompasses a diverse range of texts from short films, documentaries, experimental films, to feature films and narratives that range across life histories, narratives and themes. The book presents transliteracy as an original theoretical approach to reading film representations of the Trans New Wave, and combines it with a new theoretical concept of cinematic ethnogenesis to investigate how the genre emerged from specific communities and the reciprocal interaction of audiences and texts. This interdisciplinary volume engages with contemporary issues of gender diversity, transgender studies, screen and media studies and film festival studies, and as such will be of great interest to scholars working in these fields and in media and cultural studies more generally.

Author : Emily Skidmore
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147989799X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Sex written by Emily Skidmore and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2018 U.S. History PROSE Award The incredible stories of how trans men assimilated into mainstream communities in the late 1800s In 1883, Frank Dubois gained national attention for his life in Waupun, Wisconsin. There he was known as a hard-working man, married to a young woman named Gertrude Fuller. What drew national attention to his seemingly unremarkable life was that he was revealed to be anatomically female. Dubois fit so well within the small community that the townspeople only discovered his “true sex” when his former husband and their two children arrived in the town searching in desperation for their departed wife and mother. At the turn of the twentieth century, trans men were not necessarily urban rebels seeking to overturn stifling gender roles. In fact, they often sought to pass as conventional men, choosing to live in small towns where they led ordinary lives, aligning themselves with the expectations of their communities. They were, in a word, unexceptional. In True Sex, Emily Skidmore uncovers the stories of eighteen trans men who lived in the United States between 1876 and 1936. Despite their “unexceptional” quality, their lives are surprising and moving, challenging much of what we think we know about queer history. By tracing the narratives surrounding the moments of “discovery” in these communities – from reports in local newspapers to medical journals and beyond – this book challenges the assumption that the full story of modern American sexuality is told by cosmopolitan radicals. Rather, True Sex reveals complex narratives concerning rural geography and community, persecution and tolerance, and how these factors intersect with the history of race, identity and sexuality in America.