Representing Queer and Transgender Identity by Alexandra Gonz... - 9781611488425

Representing Queer and Transgender IdentityFluid Bodies in the Hispanic Caribbean and Beyond\nAuthor(s): Alexandra Gonzenbach Perkins\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Associated University Presses, United States\nImprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781611488425, 978-1611488425\nSynopsis\nFluid 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 bodyas it occurs in these genresdemonstrates the variety of representational strategies that disman.