Passing to América Antonio (née María) Yta's transgressive, transatlantic life in the twilight of the Spanish empire

"A historical biography of Don Antonio Yta, denounced in 1803 as a woman masquerading as a man. Examines the sex/gender complex within the Spanish Atlantic empire"--Provided by publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Abercrombie, Thomas Alan, 1951- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press [2018]
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009664721006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : exposure
  • Confession : self-fashioning and the involuntary autobiography
  • Habits : María's apprenticeships in a cross-dressing culture
  • Passages : the passing privileges of Don Antonio's sartorial modernity in América
  • Means and ends : zenith and nadir of a social climber
  • Afterlives : alternative emplotments of Don Antonio's literary lives
  • Truth : "true sex," passing, and the consequences of deception
  • Conclusion : narrations, enactments, and bodily pleasure.