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  title info:
    title: Translocas
    sub title: the politics of Puerto Rican drag and trans performance
  name:
    name part: La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Martin)
    name part: 1968-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 321 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Translocas focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx "locas" (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence that queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are subjected to. This interdisciplinary, auto-ethnographic, queer-of-color performance studies book explores the lives and work of contemporary performers and activists including Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika López, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria, and Barbra Herr; television programs such as RuPaul's Drag Race; films such as Paris Is Burning, The Salt Mines, and Mala Mala; and literary works by authors such as Mayra Santos-Febres and Manuel Ramos Otero. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, a drag performer himself, demonstrates how each destabilizes (and sometimes reifies) dominant notions of gender and sexuality through drag and their embodied transgender expression. These performances provide a means to explore and critique issues of race, class, poverty, national identity, and migratory displacement; and at times posit a relationship between audiences and performers that has a ritual-like, communal dimension. La Fountain-Stokes also analyzes the murders of Jorge Steven López Mercado and Kevin Fret in Puerto Rico, and invites readers to challenge, question, and expand their knowledge about queer life, drag, trans performance, and Puerto Rican identity in the Caribbean and the diaspora. He also pays careful attention to transgender experience, highlighting how trans activists and performers mold their bodies, promote social change, and create community in a context that oscillates between glamour and abjection.
  note: Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-321) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: nwpr---
  subject:
    topic: Female impersonators
    topic: Political activity
    geographic: Puerto Rico
  subject:
    topic: Transgender people
    topic: Political activity
    geographic: Puerto Rico
  subject:
    topic: Female impersonators
    geographic: Puerto Rico
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Transgender people
    geographic: Puerto Rico
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Gender-nonconforming people
    geographic: Puerto Rico
  subject:
    topic: Performing arts
    geographic: Puerto Rico
  classification: HQ77.2.P9
  identifier: 9780472074273
  identifier: 047207427X
  identifier: 9780472054275
  identifier: 0472054279
  identifier: 9780472126071
  identifier: 0472126075
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: EYM
    record creation date: 201203
    record change date: 20221129150512.4
    record identifier: in00004605220
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng