Prodigal daughters: portraying lesbians in Hispanic Caribbean cinema.
During the last twenty years, Hispanic Caribbean cinema has slowly developed roles to represent lesbians. In order to draw a conceptual map and to examine the un/successfulness of this new lesbian "public image," I analyze both independent films that challenge the status quo by portraying openly lesbian characters and mainstream films that insist on denying autonomy to same-sex love. Whereas commercial markets may deem an openly lesbian role transgressive, queer female roles can be considered "appropriate." Gender-queering functions as a symbolically transitional stage toward lesbian visibility and inclusion.
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Consuelo
C
Martinez-Reyes
D003462:Cuba; D004293:Dominican Republic; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D006801:Humans; D009040:Motion Pictures; D011647:Puerto Rico; D012933:Social Identification