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TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘Travestido, Transformado, Definitivamente Distinto’? Transgenericidad and Gender Trouble in Leonardo Padura's Máscaras
AU - Peate, Ailsa
PY - 2018/9
Y1 - 2018/9
N2 - This article considers how Máscaras (1995), the third novel in Cuban author Leonardo Padura's post‐Soviet detective fiction series Las cuatro estaciones, transforms the genre. This article argues that at once using and subverting US tenets of noir, the author successfully transfigures archetypes of form and content, in particular commenting on the figure of the Hombre Nuevo. The article discusses Máscaras as an example of a trans‐genre/transgenericidad: the novel demonstrates how postmodern symptoms such as self‐awareness and metanarrativity, deviant from the archetypal crime genre, reinforce and inform notions of fluid and performative representations of bodies and sexualities in Cuba.
AB - This article considers how Máscaras (1995), the third novel in Cuban author Leonardo Padura's post‐Soviet detective fiction series Las cuatro estaciones, transforms the genre. This article argues that at once using and subverting US tenets of noir, the author successfully transfigures archetypes of form and content, in particular commenting on the figure of the Hombre Nuevo. The article discusses Máscaras as an example of a trans‐genre/transgenericidad: the novel demonstrates how postmodern symptoms such as self‐awareness and metanarrativity, deviant from the archetypal crime genre, reinforce and inform notions of fluid and performative representations of bodies and sexualities in Cuba.
KW - Cuba
KW - detective fiction
KW - Hombre Nuevo
KW - iconoclasm
KW - postmodernism
KW - transgenericidad
U2 - 10.1111/blar.12667
DO - 10.1111/blar.12667
M3 - Journal article
VL - 37
SP - 449
EP - 463
JO - Bulletin of Latin American Research
JF - Bulletin of Latin American Research
SN - 0261-3050
IS - 4
ER -