Visions of Transmerica

Krzysztof A. Kulawik is Professor of Spanish Language and Latin American Literature and Culture at Central Michigan University, USA, and the author of Travestismo lingüístico: el enmascaramiento de la identidad sexual en la narrativa latinoamericana neobarroca [Linguistic Cross-Dressing: The Disguising of Sexual Identity in Latin American Neobaroque Narrative] (2009).

• Introduction.- 1 Boundaries and Transgressions: Presentation of Topic with Objectives.- 2 Identit-y/-ies in Motion: Hypotheses, Claims, and Other Aims.- 3 Why and Which (Latin) America? Why the Neobaroque?.- 4 (Un-)Situating Identity: A Discourse of Transgression and Decentering.- 5 Transgression and the Neobaroque Sign: Identity as a Discursive Process.- 6 Chapter Sequence and Methodology.- 7 Contextualizing with Existing Literature and Overview of Neobaroque Predecessors.- 8 Why Read This Literature? Relevance of Project and Interest to the Reader.- 9 Final Remarks on the Scope of This Study.