Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature

BEN. SIFUENTES-JÁUREGUI is Assistant Professor of Latin American literature at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the program in Comparative Literature.

• Introduction: Chronicle of Gender Foretold: Transvestism and the Difficulty of Gender Rereading Los 41 : Nationhood and the Scandal of Effeminacy Fashion's Lost Word: Carpentier Writes Woman Gender without Limits: The Erotics of Masculinity in El lugar sin limites Transvestite and Homobaroque Endings: Sarduy on the Verge of Reading Kissing the Body Politic: Engendering Heterosexuality/Screening the Homosocial

'A truly exceptional and extraordinarily acute reflection on transvestism and the performance of gender....' - Sylvia Molloy, President of the Modern Language Association & Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at New York University