Buy this book in this titillating debut novel, a followup to her wellreceived short fiction. A finalist for the 2001 romulo gallegos prize for the novel, it won the pen club of puerto ricos prize for best novel, and. Grijalbo mondadori, 2000, which focuses on the life of a teenaged drag queen who works in the streets and has a talent for singing boleros, was ms. Coconut shell, melancholy and restless, from the gods you came, sweet selena, succulent siren of the glistening beaches.
The paper analyzes how crossdressing functions as a metaphor to encompass the ambiguities of the associated free state, which. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Set in the neighboring islands of puerto rico and the dominican republic, the novel presents the postcard that is. Discovered by martha divine in the backstreets of san juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener, a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into sirena selena, a diva whose uncanny beauty and irrisistable voice will be their ticket to fame and fortune pdf. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Set in the neighboring islands of puerto rico and the dominican republic, the novel presents the postcard that is travel from the. Translating queer caribbean localities in sirena selena. She has been an influence in bringing about new youth writers in puerto rico. The novel, narrated by both sirena and martha, is written in the sassy and charming. Buy this book in this titillating debut novel, a followup to her wellreceived short fiction collection, urban oracles, santosfebres. Sirena selena was obviously a man but was pushed into the drag world for money and a better life. Project muse translating queer caribbean localities in.
Her work focuses primarily on themes of diaspora identity, female sexuality, the erotic, gender fluidity, desire, and power. Mayra santosfebres born 1966 in carolina is a puerto rican author, poet, novelist, professor of literature, essayist, and literary critic and author of childrens books. Mayra santos febres sirena selena part 1 fictions of. It was never made clear in the book if selena was a gay male, but.