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Transformismo : performing trans/queer Cuba / M. Myrta Leslie Santana.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Santana, M. Myrta Leslie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drag performance--Social aspects--Cuba.
- Drag performance.
- Drag performance--Cuba.
- Gender expression--Social aspects--Cuba.
- Gender expression.
- Gender identity in music.
- Trans people--Cuba--Social life and customs.
- Trans people.
- Gender-nonconforming people--Cuba--Social life and customs.
- Gender-nonconforming people.
- Women, Black--Cuba--Social life and customs.
- Women, Black.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 190 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- In Transformismo, M. Myrta Leslie Santana draws on years of embedded research within Cuban trans/queer communities to analyze how transformistas, or drag performers, understand their roles in the social transformation of the island. Once banned and censored in Cuba, transformismo, or drag performance, is now state-sponsored events. Transformismo suggests that these performances are making critical interventions in Cuban trans/queer life and politics and in doing so, the volume offers critical insight into how Cuba's postsocialist reform has exacerbated racial, sexual, and economic inequalities. Leslie Santana argues that mainstream trans/queer nightlife in Cuba is entangled with the island's tourism economy, which has shaped the aesthetics and social makeup of transformismo in coastal Havana, which largely caters to foreigners. Leslie Santana considers how Black lesbian and transgender transformistas are expanding understandings of sexual selfhood and politics on the island, particularly questioning the ways that Black women's creativity is prominently featured in the aesthetics of tourism and trans/queer nightlife, while Black women themselves are denied social and material capital.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472221974
- 0472221973
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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