| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: Strategies of representing transnational, transgender, and queer experience -- Caribbean translocations: narrating transgender identity on the move -- Drawing out identities: transgender representation in the graphic novel -- Conscripts of the body: representing transgender and queer identity in theatre -- Dialects of the body: performing the queer yo |
| Summary |
Fluid Bodies traces the intersections of global movement with transgender and queer identities from authors and artists of the Hispanic Caribbean. Utilizing the theme of fluidity and travel, Fluid Bodies analyzes novels, graphic novels, theatre, and performance art. These works demonstrate how transgender and queer bodies redefine belonging, particularly national belonging, through global movement and community making practices. Through these genres, the text follows the movement of transgender and queer identities from textual spaces to spaces of the body. The gradual movement from text to body--as it occurs in these genres--demonstrates the variety of representational strategies that dismantle binary readings of gender, sexuality, and nationality. Transgender visibility is a pressing social issue, and today's transgender moment will be a social and political necessity for years to come. Of particular importance are representations of transgender and/or queer people of color. The field of transgender representation is growing, and Fluid Bodies adds to the visibility of transgender and queer identity from the Hispanic Caribbean. By investigating the relationship between novels, graphic novels, theatre, and performance art, Fluid Bodies emphasizes how each work plays on and against the separation of language and the body, and how Hispanic Caribbean authors and artists represent transgender and queer identity in order to redefine cultural and national belonging in various geographic spaces |
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This is the first book-length study of transgender and queer identities in Hispanic Caribbean novels, graphic novels, theatre, and performance art. The author follows the movement of identity from textual spaces to spaces of the body, revealing the variety of representational strategies that dismantle binary readings of gender, sexuality, and nationality. Fluid Bodies demonstrates how transgender and queer subjects reshape and redefine gendered and national belonging through global movement and community making practices |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Caribbean literature (Spanish) -- History and criticism
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Transgender people in literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Queer theory.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
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Caribbean literature (Spanish)
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Gender identity in literature
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Queer theory
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Transgender people in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017035856 |
| ISBN |
9781611488401 |
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1611488400 |
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