Martha divine, a veteran drag queen on the san juan gay scene, rescues the boy from the. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Project muse the rough edges of puerto rican identities. Coconut shell, melancholy and restless, from the gods you came, sweet selena, succulent siren of the glistening beaches. Sirena selena by mayra santosfebres, translated by stephen a.
Buy this book in this titillating debut novel, a followup to her wellreceived short fiction. Discovered by martha divine in the backstreets of san juan, picking. Santosfebres, theorist, poet, and awardwinning writer, for many years the caribbean has been a desire factory for the. Love my guinea pig cute guinea pig journalnotebook blank lined ruled 6x9 100 pages download torrent. Translating queer caribbean localities in sirena selena. Grijalbo mondadori, 2000, which focuses on the life of a teenaged drag queen who works in the streets and has a talent for singing boleros, was ms.
Her work focuses primarily on themes of diaspora identity, female sexuality, the erotic, gender fluidity, desire, and power. Mayra santos febres sirena selena part 1 fictions of. I am happy that sirena selena was the last book read for the class. No wonder the translator chose to just shorten the title. Sirena selena by mayra santosfebres, translated by. The novel insinuates that sirena may have embarked on this trip whereas martha. Mayra santosfebres has published more than twentyfive books of poetry, short stories, essay collections, and novels. The first one was the contemplation of a woman named sirena sliding downstairs in a caribbean mansion. She has been an influence in bringing about new youth writers in puerto rico. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
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