%0 Journal Article
%T Fredi Vel¨¢scues le mete mano a Sirena Selena vestida de pena
%A Jos¨¦ Delgado Costa
%J Centro Journal
%D 2003
%I 
%X Sirena Selena vestida de pena (2000), by Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres, is analyzed through the eyes of a fictitious character named Fredi Vel¨¢scues. Structured in three sections, this essay tackles three themes in the young transvestite s story. The first part undertakes the axiomatic analogy between Puerto Rican Divine and Selena and Dominican Hugo and Leocadio, while explaining the way in which these main characters constitute, in ovo, cubic binary figures. The second section offers a reading of the novel as a Bildungsroman, while the third segment links the story to Fredric Jameson s controversial article Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism
%U http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37715205