Performing Translatinidad

In 2004, a new celebrity hit the Australian television circuit. Billed as a mysterious, seductive Latina with a secret, she graced our shores in a TV reality show called ` There's Something About Miriam': a dating game with a twist. Set in Ibiza, Miriam vies for the attention of six eligible British bachelors without letting them in on her transsexual status. In her ambiguity, Miriam is the embodiment of all things seen as other and exotic; in the context of Anglo-Australian understandings, she is the marker of all things Hispanic. Wildly popular in Australia, Miriam stepped out of one reality show into another: the Australian version of Big Brother. The TV network promised to deliver more on this boy turned girl, whose body provided the right kind of slippage to become the site of inscription for a range of repeated tropical fictions

Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Art · Brother · Context (archaeology · Girl · Media studies · Reality television · Reality tv · Sociology · Transgender · Transsexual · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy · Psychology

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• Translatinas/Os

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• Hierarchies among intertextual references

  Open Access•Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera•Critical Discourse Studies•2024

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• YouTube as Educator

  Open Access•Brandon Miller•Social Media + Society•2017

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• Modern Social Imaginaries

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• Freaks Talk Back

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• The Imaginary Institution of Society

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• White Women, Race Matters

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• Gender Trouble

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• Tropicalizations. Transcultural Representations of Latinidad

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• The Trouble with Nature

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• Cultural Identity, Soap Narrative, and Reality TV

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• Sex Change, Social Change

  Viviane Namaste, Viviane K Namaste•Sex Change, Social Change•2005

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• Disciplining Gender

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• Imagined communities

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• Caught in the Web

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