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identidad fronteriza a travâes de las experiencias generacionales en Sirena Selena vestida de pena
| Title: | La identidad fronteriza a travâes de las experiencias generacionales en Sirena Selena vestida de pena. |
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| Name(s): |
Magdaleno, Ariana Heydi. Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Date Issued: | 2009 - | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: | electronic | |
| Extent: | vii, 93 p. | |
| Language(s): | Spanish | |
| Summary: | Afro-Puerto Rican Mayra Santos-Febres's novel Sirena Selena vestida de pena (2000) demonstrates the intrinsic social relationship that exists between generations in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. The historical similarity between these regions permits a comparison in life stories of marginalized peoples. Puerto Rican godmothers and transvestites Martha Divine and Valentina Frenesâi prepare goddaughter, quinceänera and bolerista Sirena Selena in her performance in order to launch a career and conquer the strategies of survival. Meanwhile, Dominican millionaire Hugo Graubel manages his life publicly as a heterosexual husband and privately as a gay man and strongly attempts to capture enigmatic Sirena Selena. Whereas the Dominican, pre-adolescent, poor, and mulatto Leocadio discovers the veiled world of tourism that offers alternate possibilities of economic survival. The previous generations' transgression of society's binary definitions created alternate spaces that continue to pave the way for future generations that will refuse and resist conforming to static patriarchal and heterosexual mainstream classifications. | |
| Identifier: | 501172307 (oclc), 369190 (digitool), FADT369190 (IID), fau:4261 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by Ariana Heydi Magdaleno. Abstract in English. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. Includes bibliography. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject(s): |
Santos-Febres, Mayra, 1966- Identity in literature -- Caribbean Area Sex role in literature -- Caribbean Area Literature and society -- Caribbean Area Homosexuality and literature -- Caribbean Area |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/369190 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
