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ISBN:

1048-9487

Accession Number:

22080109

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The article presents an interview with author Leslie Feinberg. When asked about the particular audience for her GLBT fiction Drag King Dreams. When asked why she opened the novel with a non-verbal assault and follow it with a murder, she believes violence is an ever-present characteristic in gender-variant lives. She details how to portray characters who are deaf, HIV positive, or have another disability without stereotyping.

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Vol. 14 Issue 2, p16-17 2p

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ISBN:

0742-5457

Accession Number:

10014968

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This essay cites instances of transgender performance in two no plays and analyzes how they deal with issues of gender. Drawing on .Judith Butler's gender theory, it attempts to understand the status of gender in these plays within Zeami's aesthetic hierarchy.

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Vol. 20 Issue 2, p218 8p

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ISBN:

1538-6279

Accession Number:

11871637

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This paper is an analysis, within the limits of erotics, of the novel Sirena Selena vestida de pena, by Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres. Ideas of transvestites' and women's correct bodies are deconstructed through a language of solidarity. Selena constructs a femenine body that reaches its limit when s/he seduces the apparently macho Hugo Graubel, who insists on being penetrated by the transvestite. The main character's crisis reveals itself when s/he claims her personal erotic identity as transgender and not as a man who crossdresses. The transvestite's masculinity clashes with her vestido de pena (sorrow dress), to the point that s/he flees the narrative, the mystery of her disappearance left unresolved. In this novel, Santos-Febres advocates erotics unburdened by taboos, erotics where each person accepts breaking through the barriers imposed by society.

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Vol. 15 Issue 2, p98-105 8p; 1bw