Too Much a Woman
Narrating Transsexuality in Mario Mendoza's Lady Masacre
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170424 |
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| Authors | Marcelo Carosi (0000-0003-2637-3625) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 587-600 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2022.2037533 |
| OpenAlex | W4214870578 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This article explores how Lady Masacre (Mario Mendoza, Colombia, 2013) constructs the narrative of a transsexual woman, Gabriela López, as a way to reinforce views on non-heteronormative life that perpetuate the dominant values expected from marginalised communities. In reading this novel, I argue that Mendoza reduces Gabriela to a pendular existence between being an autonomous woman and the femme fatal role that eventually defines her. In so doing, Lady Masacre humanises the men who take part in the reconstruction of her story while showing why Gabriela feels the need to pass as a cis woman. In this way, while the novel offers a glimpse into the contradictions of trans lives, desires, and challenges in contemporary Colombia, it also traps Gabriela within practices imposed by respectability politics
Art · Art history · Life writing · Literature · Narrative · New Woman · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Transgender · Transsexual · Cuban History and Society · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American Literature Studies · Gender Studies · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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