Transformismo : Performing trans/queer Cuba / M. Myrta Leslie Santana.

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Transformismo : Performing trans/queer Cuba / M. Myrta Leslie Santana.

9780472221974 (ebook)
0472221973
9780472077168 (hardcover)
9780472057160 (paperback)
0472077163
0472057162

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2025.

©2025

English

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10.3998/mpub.12410823 doi

PN1969.D73

792.7/2097291

In Transformismo, M. Myrta Leslie Santana draws on years of embedded research within Cuban trans/queer communities to analyze how transformistas, or drag performers, understand their roles in the social transformation of the island. Once banned and censored in Cuba, transformismo, or drag performance, is now state-sponsored events. Transformismo suggests that these performances are making critical interventions in Cuban trans/queer life and politics and in doing so, the volume offers critical insight into how Cuba's postsocialist reform has exacerbated racial, sexual, and economic inequalities. Santana argues that mainstream trans/queer nightlife in Cuba is entangled with the island's tourism economy, which has shaped the aesthetics and social makeup of transformismo in coastal Havana, which largely caters to foreigners. Santana considers how Black lesbian and transgender transformistas are expanding understandings of sexual selfhood and politics on the island, particularly questioning the ways that Black women's creativity is prominently featured in the aesthetics of tourism and trans/queer nightlife, while Black women themselves are denied social and material capital.

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