Travestismos Culturales: Literatura Y Etnografía En Cuba Y Brasil

by Jossianna Arroyo

This work is a reflection on the new critical debates on the place of the body as the space where political ideologies, social powers and definitions of identity intersect in Latin American postmodernity. Hence, 'Identity politics' become a more effective discursive way to understand the transformations of contemporary cultures. The discourses of race, gender and sexuality are very useful to explain the problems posed by the 'Latin American postmodern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930744188
• ISBN13: 9781930744189
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoam
• Length: 298 Pages