Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos-Febres: ¿transgresiones de espacio o espacio de ansgresiones?
Title:
Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos-Febres: ¿transgresiones de espacio o espacio de ansgresiones?
Author:
Kristian Van Haesendonck
Appeared in:
Centro journal
Paging:
Volume XV (2003) nr. 2 pages -78---97
Year:
2003
Contents:
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
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