Passing to América : Antonio (née María) Yta's transgressive, transatlantic life in the twilight of the Spanish empire /
"A historical biography of Don Antonio Yta, denounced in 1803 as a woman masquerading as a man. Examines the sex/gender complex within the Spanish Atlantic empire"--Provided by publisher
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2018]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : exposure
- Confession : self-fashioning and the involuntary autobiography
- Habits : María's apprenticeships in a cross-dressing culture
- Passages : the passing privileges of Don Antonio's sartorial modernity in América
- Means and ends : zenith and nadir of a social climber
- Afterlives : alternative emplotments of Don Antonio's literary lives
- Truth : "true sex," passing, and the consequences of deception
- Conclusion : narrations, enactments, and bodily pleasure.