Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos-Febres: transgresiones de espacio o espacio de ansgresiones?

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