Trans affirmation and inclusion in Perlongher’s inner city

• Huber David Jaramillo Gil ^[1]
  1. [1] City University of New York

     City University of New York

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: CiberLetras: revista de crítica literaria y de cultura, ISSN-e 1523-1720, Nº. 43, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Imaginarios económicos en la literatura y el cine de España y Latinoamérica), págs. 124-140
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this study, I look at the gendered dimension of the public sphere as presented by Néstor Perlongher. As I examine the sexual economy and structural violence found in the author’s metropolis, I focus on the way in which trans women are presented simultaneously as attractive and as repulsive, wanted and rejected, desired and murdered. In addition, I am interested in the exchange of ideas, production of knowledge, conceptual representations, enactments of desire, and systems of affect found among trans people within the city space. By exploring the interconnections between sexuality, commerce, legality, nation, and gender within the inner city, the author reveals the complex identities of trans people and marginalized minorities. In doing so, Perlongher reveals his vision for anti-identitarian, micropolitical, and subversive approaches to personal expression and experience