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." - Debra Ann Castillo, Director, Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University
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. The book s key contribution arguably is its nuanced discussion of Latin American trans vocabulary." - Choice"There has been a growing body of literature, both literary and critical, on gender diverse people from Latin America, and Vek Lewis s book will be in dialogue with works by people like Ben Sifuentes-Jaúregui, Robert Irwin, Sylvia Molloy, Dan Balderston and other distinguished scholars in the Latin American literary field, as well as Lumsden, Murray, Carrier, Prieur, Lancaster, Gutmann, Kulick, and González Pérez who have provided leadership in groundbreaking social studies research on gay and trans lives. "This book adds to extant literature with deep readings of works from Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Chile, and Brazil.
0 kommentar(er)
