Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos-Febres: ¿transgresiones de espacio o espacio de ansgresiones?

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This paper’s goal is to reflect, however briefly, on the image of the transvestite in the novel Sirena Selena vestida de pena, by Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres. The paper analyzes how crossdressing functions as a metaphor to encompass the ambiguities of the Associated Free State, which has been described by several critics as a “postcolonial colony,” where identity and everything “light” is up for sale. By placing the narrative in the Dominican Republic, Santos extends the Puerto Rican colonial experience into a diasporic experience within the Caribbean, in the “context of desire” and its “First- World crossdressing.” In this way the transvestite also expresses the contradictory reality that, at the end of the 20th century, affects the Caribbean, whose countries are the subject of a complex network of interests

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Inglés This paper’s goal is to reflect, however briefly, on the image of the transvestite in the novel Sirena Selena vestida de pena, by Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres. The paper analyzes how crossdressing functions as a metaphor to encompass the ambiguities of the Associated Free State, which has been described by several critics as a “postcolonial colony,” where identity and everything “light” is up for sale. By placing the narrative in the Dominican Republic, Santos extends the Puerto Rican colonial experience into a diasporic experience within the Caribbean, in the “context of desire” and its “First- World crossdressing.” In this way the transvestite also expresses the contradictory reality that, at the end of the 20th century, affects the Caribbean, whose countries are the subject of a complex network of interests