Travestismos culturales: literatura y etnografa en Cuba y Brasil [Paperback]

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 subject'. Here, these homogenising cultural narratives, their creation of a national imaginary, and their representation of the subject are analysed and deconstructed. With this purpose, this work wants to draw a map that describes, from a Cuban and Brazilian ethnography and sociology, the cultural visions that built the nation as an organism. In this book, the body of the other, especially black populations, becomes an integral part of the national discourse. This integration raises problems in the racial, sexual and gender representation of that body, forcing the subject to wear various masks, which implies a certain cultural transvestism, by identifying with the other, uniting with the other and getting lost in it.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 subject'. Here, these homogenising cultural narratives, their creation of a national imaginary, and their representation of the subject are analysed and deconstructed. With this purpose, this work wants to draw a map that describes, from a Cuban and Brazilian ethnography and sociology, the cultural visions that built the nation as an organism. In this book, tlóZ