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Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature: Genders Share Flesh began as a rather casual fascination with transvestism. Very soon after doing some preliminary work on the topic, I realized that, like with so many seemingly innocent acts of voyeurism, transvestism as an” event “contained and screened a deeper and more complex secret.
Sucede que me canso de ser hombre. Sucede que entro en las sastrerias y en los eines marchito, impenetrable, como un cisne defieltro naveganâo en un agua de origen y ceniza.
—-from” Walking Around, “Pablo Neruda
Si era hombre tenia que ser capaz de sentirlo todo, aün esto…
—El lugar sin limites, José Donoso
Y en eljuego angustioso de un espejo frente a otro cae mi voz y mi voz que maâura y mi voz quemaâura y mi bosque maâura y mi voz quema dura como él hielo de vidrio como él grito de hielo
—-from” Nocturno en que nada se oye, “Xavier Villaurrutia
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Notes
Paul de Man, “Criticism and Crisis,” in Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism, 2nd rev. ed., intro. by Wlad Godzich (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), 3.
For an excellent overview of the complexity and promiscuity of the concept of “performance” as it pertains to theater, performativity, and cultural politics, see Elin Diamond, “Introduction,” Performance ana Cultural Politics (New York: Roudedge, 1996), 1–12.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Crônica de una muerte anunciada (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1981), 106.
Marjorie Garber, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and American Cultural Anxiety (New York: Routledge, 1990), 10.
Israel Zeitlin [Clara Beter, pseud.], “Versos de una...,” in Poesias completas de CésarTiempo (Buenos Aires: Stillman Edit ores, 1979), 1–41.
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Sifuentes-Jáuregui, B. (2002). Introduction Chronicle of Gender Foretold: Transvestism and the Difficulty of Gender. In: Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230107281_1
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