2021/10/23 by Amaral Palevi Gómez Arévalo, Arévalo, Amaral
Social Sciences · #Cuban History and Society #Latin American and Latino Studies #Race, History, and American Society
paper · doi:10.13131/2611-657x.whatever.v5i1.160
openalex publication_date 2021/10/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
In 1992, the Salvadoran postwar period began. Along this period, the social movement started various demands, and in the literature, we have seen an emergence of subjectivities that contradicted heterosexuality. The present text proposes to analyze the trans identities represented in narratives of the Salvadoran postwar period between 1992 and 2021. Trans identities encompass a series of narrative representations that share an expression and gender identity dissidents from the binary norm of hegemonic heterosexuality. In conclusion, it is highlighted that death as the destiny of trans people reflects the transphobia processes that exist and persist in Salvadoran society; postwar Salvadoran narratives reproduce this transphobic and murderous social imaginary. The trans identities represented correspond only to trans women; transmen are invisible in these narratives. The challenge and the next frontier to overcome in the narrative field is for trans people to be the architects of their histories, placing their subjectivities, desires, identities, problems, aspirations, etc.