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Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos-Febres: ¿transgresiones de espacio o espacio de ansgresiones?
Titel:
Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos-Febres: ¿transgresiones de espacio o espacio de ansgresiones?
Auteur:
Kristian Van Haesendonck
Verschenen in:
Centro journal
Paginering:
Jaargang XV (2003) nr. 2 pagina's -78---97
Jaar:
2003
Inhoud:
This paper¿s goal is to reflect, however briefly, on the image of the transvestite in the novel Sirena Selena vestida de pena, by Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres. The paper analyzes how crossdressing functions as a metaphor to encompass the ambiguities of the Associated Free 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 the Dominican Republic, Santos extends the Puerto Rican colonial experience into a diasporic experience within the Caribbean, in the ¿context of desire¿ and its ¿First- World crossdressing.¿ In this way the transvestite also expresses the contradictory reality that, at the end of the 20th century, affects the Caribbean, whose countries are the subject of a complex network of interests
Uitgever:
City University of New York (provided by DOAJ)
Bronbestand:
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
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