The Language of the In-Between

Erika Almenara delivers a timely and complex analysis that delves into the tensions of official discourses of modern state formation and their exclusions through queer, transvestite, and transgender expressions of artists, intellectuals, writers, and performers in Peru and Chile. The Language of the In-Between makes an important contribution to intersectional approaches to the discourse of modernity and the artistic and literary creation of dissident practices and languages of resistance and their cultural and social transformation.

-- Ana Forcinito, University of Minnesota

A valuable book that explores canonical Latin American authors such as Arguedas, Donoso, and Lemebel to challenge the modern racist, classist, and anti-LGBTQ+ national paradigms in Chile and Peru. Departing from the idea of the language in between, Almenara’s reading reopens the debate about cultural practices of emancipation using performative and literary works to interrogate a speculative aesthetics that reconceptualizes the current debates on ‘the political’ in Southern Cone and Andean Cuir/Queer politics. . . . [The Language of the In-Between] provides key insights for those working in the intersection of Latin American literature, queer studies, and gender and sexuality studies.

-- Fernando A. Blanco, Bucknell University

Those interested in the intersection of queer studies with Latin American literature and culture will welcome this book.

-- J. S. Bottaro, Medgar Evers College of The City University of New