WE ARE FAMILY: TRANSLOCATIONS OF QUEER KINSHIP IN MAYRA SANTOS FEBRES'S "SIRENA SELENA VESTIDA DE PENA"

I analyze the ways in which Mayra Santos-Febres' novel Sirena Selena vestida de pena (2000) challenges the construction and enactment of subjectivity with relation to categories of identity. Specifically focusing upon the markers of nationality, sexuality, and race, Santos-Febres represents bod...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Chasqui 2017-05, Vol.46 (1), p.70-83
1. Verfasser:	Perkins, Alexandra Gonzenbach
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Allegory Caribbean literature Crítica literaria Cultura hispanoamericana Cultural transmission Gender identity Heterosexualidad Homosexualidad Homosexuality Identidad de género Identidad nacional Ideology Interpersonal relations Intersectionality Latin American culture Literary characters Literary criticism Literary devices Literatura puertorriqueña Logic Marriage Masculinidad Masculinity Matrimonio National identity Novel Novela Puerto Rican literature Queer theory Race Representaciones Representations Santos-Febres, Mayra (1966-) Self-actualization Sexuality Speculative fiction Subjectivity Teoría queer
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Zusammenfassung:	I analyze the ways in which Mayra Santos-Febres' novel Sirena Selena vestida de pena (2000) challenges the construction and enactment of subjectivity with relation to categories of identity. Specifically focusing upon the markers of nationality, sexuality, and race, Santos-Febres represents bodies that, while still identifiable by certain markers of identity, challenge the reduction of the body to a simplified correlative identification with categories of identity. Santos-Febres represents how transnational subjectivity undoes the concept of identity as a discrete, closed categorization.
ISSN:	0145-8973 2327-4247