Karen Christian
Biographic Data
| ID | 6738617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Christian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Christian |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTIAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | California Polytechnic State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Beyond Essence
Set against a backdrop of the chaotic, crumbling Cuban capital and the multiple crises of the Special Period, Ena Lucía Portela's 2002 novel Cien botellas en una pared portrays both consequences of economic collapse and the breakdown of traditional paradigms of gender and sexuality. In the text, the connection between biological sex and gender performance appears to be arbitrary; virtually all of the female characters are lesbians, while the male…
Show and Tell
Between standing still and moving : reading U.S. Latina/o identity -- Invisible Chicanos : gay and lesbian identities in the fiction of Sheila Ortiz Taylor and John Rechy -- Identity as drag : performing gender and Cubanidad in The mambo kings play songsof love and The greatest performance -- Invention of the ethnic self in Latina immigrant fiction : The line of the sun and How the Garc ia girls lost their accents -- The boom in U.S. Latina/o fic…
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Show and Tell
Between standing still and moving : reading U.S. Latina/o identity -- Invisible Chicanos : gay and lesbian identities in the fiction of Sheila Ortiz Taylor and John Rechy -- Identity as drag : performing gender and Cubanidad in The mambo kings play songsof love and The greatest performance -- Invention of the ethnic self in Latina immigrant fiction : The line of the sun and How the Garc ia girls lost their accents -- The boom in U.S. Latina/o fic…
Beyond Essence
Set against a backdrop of the chaotic, crumbling Cuban capital and the multiple crises of the Special Period, Ena Lucía Portela's 2002 novel Cien botellas en una pared portrays both consequences of economic collapse and the breakdown of traditional paradigms of gender and sexuality. In the text, the connection between biological sex and gender performance appears to be arbitrary; virtually all of the female characters are lesbians, while the male…
Weaving a larger web
Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Latin American Literature Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works)