Fredi Veláscues le mete mano a Sirena Selena vestida de pena

Sirena Selena vestida de pena (2000), by Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres, is analyzed through the eyes of a fictitious character named Fredi Veláscues. 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