‘Travestido, Transformado, Definitivamente Distinto’? Transgenericidad and Gender Trouble in Leonardo Padura's Máscaras.

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...

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Published in:Bulletin of Latin American Research Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 449 - 464
Main Author: PEATE, A. I. L. S. A. M.
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2018
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