%0 Journal Article
%T Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos-Febres:  transgresiones de espacio o espacio de ansgresiones?
%A Kristian Van Haesendonck
%J Centro Journal
%D 2003
%I 
%X This paper s goal is to reflect, however briefly, on the image of the transvestite in the novel Sirena Selena vestida de pena, by Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres. The paper analyzes how crossdressing functions as a metaphor to encompass the ambiguities of the Associated Free State, which has been described by several critics as a  postcolonial colony,  where identity and everything  light  is up for sale. By placing the narrative in the Dominican Republic, Santos extends the Puerto Rican colonial experience into a diasporic experience within the Caribbean, in the  context of desire  and its  First- World crossdressing.  In this way the transvestite also expresses the contradictory reality that, at the end of the 20th century, affects the Caribbean, whose countries are the subject of a complex network of interests
%U http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37715206