2022/02/01 by Henri Billard, Billard, Henri
Social Sciences · #Cuban History and Society #Latin American Literature Studies #Latin American and Latino Studies
paper · doi:10.13131/2611-657x.whatever.v5i1.176
openalex publication_date 2022/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
The purpose of the current work is to study one aspect of the representation of persons with dissenting gender, which has become more visible and less cartoonish in Latin American literary production since the year 1994. We are referring to the presence of trans characters (i.e., transvestite, transsexual and transgender) that begin to acquire new identities with the help of a context comprised by people without blood ties with the main character. To illustrate this, we will discuss two recent Argentinian novels, Soy lo que quieras llamarme (“I Am Whoever You Want to Call me”) by Gabriel Dalla Torre (Neuquén, 1977), published in 2012 by El Ateneo in Buenos Aires ( Letra Sur International Award for Novel), and Las malas (“The Evil Ones”) by Camila Sosa Villada (La Falda, Córdoba, 1982) published by Tusquets in 2019 (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award in 2020).