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Latin American literature has depicted warrior woman and trans warrior characters in armed conflicts, but literary critics have not paid much attention to their empowerment. They also have critiqued these characters using traditional gender binary concepts or have viewed their access to power as evil or abnormal. Warrior Women and Trans Warriors: Performing Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature introduces a new perspective by analyzing how one trans warrior and two warrior women from three canonical novels contest traditional codes of behavior and appearance. It examines Pintada in the Mexican novel Los de abajo (1915); doña Bárbara in the Venezuelan novel Doña Bárbara (1929); and Diadorim in the Brazilian novel Grande sertão: veredas (1956). Warrior Women and Trans Warriors focuses on how these three characters challenge conventional norms and empower themselves by giving orders, using weapons, fighting, competing with other characters, exposing traditional gender ideologies, and transgressing sartorial gender rules. Drawing on trans theory, intersectionality, gender performance theory, and masculinities studies, this book argues that performing masculinities allow these characters to occupy the place of the most-desired position of their contexts.
Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: The Sartorial Transgressions of Warrior Women and Trans Warriors

Chapter Two: Empowered Names, Disempowered Nicknames

Chapter Three: The Masculinities of Trans Warriors and Warrior Women

Chapter Four: Warrior Women, Trans Warriors, and Traditional Feminine Characters

Chapter Five: Trans Warriors and Warrior Women in Twentieth-Century Latin America

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Publié par

Purdue University Press

Date de parution

15 novembre 2024

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781612499833

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

8 Mo

WARRIOR WOMEN AND TRANS WARRIORS

Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures

Editorial Board

Íñigo Sáncez-Llama, Series Editor Elena Coda Paul B. Dixon

Bet Gale Laura Demaría

Howard Mancing, Consulting Editor Floyd Merrell, Consulting Editor R. Tyler Gabbard-Roca, Production Editor

Frenc Jeanette Beer Paul Benamou Willard Bon homas Broden Mary Ann Caws Allan H. Pasco Gerald Prince Roseann Runte Ursula Tidd

Italian Fiora A. Bassanese Peter Carravetta Benjamin Lawton Franco Masciandaro Antony Julian Tamburri

Associate Editors

Luso-Brazilian Marta Peixoto Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg

Spanis and Spanis American Caterine Connor Ivy A. Corﬁs Frederick A. de Armas Edward Friedman Carles Ganelin David T. Gies Roberto González Ecevarría David K. Herzberger Emily Hicks Djelal Kadir Amy Kaminsky Lucille Kerr Howard Mancing Floyd Merrell Alberto Moreiras Randolp D. Pope . ElzbietaSkl-odowska Marcia Stepenson

volume 92

WARRIOR WOMEN AND TRANS WARRIORS Performing Masculinities in Twentiet-Century Latin American Literature

Carolina Castellanos Gonella

Purdue University Press West Lafayette, Indiana

Cataloging-in-Publication Data on ﬁle at te Library of Congress.

978-1-61249-980-2 (ardcover) 978-1-61249-981-9 (paperback) 978-1-61249-982-6 (epub) 978-1-61249-983-3 (epdf )

Cover image: "Diadorim" by Mario Cau

Contents

ix Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 5 Wy “Warrior Women” and “Trans Warriors”? 11Warriors and Warrior Women in Latin American Trans Literary Criticism 17 Warrior Women and Trans Warriors as Transgressive Caracters 23Warrios and Warrior Women Caracters in Trans Latin America 30 hematic Structure

33 Capter One he Sartorial Transgressions of Warrior Women and Trans Warriors 33Trans Warriors and Warrior Women Fasioning 40 Pintada’s Cloted Images 48 Dressing to kill 50 Doña Bárbara’s Manipulated Images 52 Dressing for Strengt 54 Dressing to Seduce 58 Diadorim Cloted and Naked 60 Dressing te Masculine Trans* 67te Corpse Undressing 70 Conclusion

73 Capter Two Empowered Names, Disempowered Nicknames 74 he Name as Proper Noun 78 Naming Pintada 81 Deumanizing Pintada 85 Naming Barbarity 89te Demystifying Cacica 94 Naming Diadorim 96Trans(itory) Names Diadorim's 102 Conclusion

105 Capter hree he Masculinities of Trans Warriors and Warrior Women 112 Pintada’s Female Masculinity: Performing te Revolutionary 113 Masculine Attitude 114Courage Masculine 115 Manipulation 117 Leadersip 118Consumption Alcool 120te Warrior Women Disempowering 122 Doña Bárbara’s Female Masculinity: Performing teCacica 123 Dominating Men 126Ideal Masculinity for Civilizing Barbarity he 132Trans* Masculinity: Performing te Diadorim’s Hero Warrior 134 Masculinity of Yout 137 Masculinity of Adultood 140of te War Hero Sacriﬁce 142 Conclusion

145 Capter Four Warrior Women, Trans Warriors, and Traditional Feminine Caracters 147 Diverse Femininities inLos de abajo 152Women Excanging 156 Mediated Femininities in Doña Bárbara 161 Mestiza Moter and Daugter 164National Femininities Embodying 165 Sexuality inGrande sertão: veredas 169Active Women Caracters Sexually 172Feminine Fiancée he 176Feminine Object he 178 Conclusion

181 Capter Five Trans Warriors and Warrior Women in Twentiet-Century Latin America 184 Warrior Women and Trans Warriors in te Mexican Revolution 188 Canging Images of a Warrior Woman from 1931 to 1960 192Images: he Black Warrior Woman Controlling 204 Women Guerrillas in Latin American Revolutions 205 Cuban Women Guerrillas of te Late 1950s 209 Brazilian Women Guerrillas of te 1960s troug 1970s 214 Nicaraguan Women Guerrillas of te 1970s 220American Trans Warriors in Revolutionary Latin History 224 Conclusion

229 Epilogue

239 Notes

249 Bibliograpy

285 Index

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Acknowledgments

his book as been a long journey. I am enormously grateful to everyone involved in producing tis book at Purdue University Press. hanks to Joyce L. Detzner, R. Tyler Gabbard-Roca, and te team at te Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. I espe-cially want to tank Gwen Kirkpatrick, Spanis editor, wose invaluable feedback and suggestions enanced my analysis. I am also indebted to te two anonymous readers wo provided me wit bibliograpical references and insigts tat improved my manuscript. My doctoral advisor Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira-Monte deserves a special tank you for everyting tat se as done for me. Not only as se been a great mentor, attentive reader of my disser-tation, and professor, se as demonstrated by example ow a woman scolar from Latin America can navigate te often-unwel-coming academic environment of te United States. Emanuelle, I do not ave te words to express ow appy and tankful I am to ave you in my life. To Earl E. Fitz, anoter big tank you for serving on my dissertation committee and for believing in, supporting, and encouraging me to pursue tis topic from te beginning. I am also indebted to oter professors at te University of Massacusetts Amerst and Vanderbilt University wo elped me during te very early stages of tis project, including Nina Gerassi-Navarro, Luis A. Marentes, Brooke Ackerly, Jason Borge, Caty L. Jrade, Jim Lang, and Marsall E. Eakin. I tank Dickinson College for te support I received to pursue my researc. Special tanks to te Researc and Development Committee for granting me a Dana Researc Assistant, as well as providing me te funds to conduct researc and paying for te co-ver of tis book and oter book-related costs. I also want to tank my colleagues at Dickinson wo supported me trougout te

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