Naty's Menstrual Transvestic Narrative Authors Jorge Luis Peralta Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, MAEC-AECID Keywords: Naty Menstrual, twenty-first century Argentinean literature, transvestism, gender roles, body and sexuality Abstract This work offers a journey through the singular narrative universe of Naty Menstrual, the first self-defined transvestite writer published in Argentina. In her first book of short stories, Continuadísimo (2008), the author presents a world that changes traditional -social, cultural, and sexual- rules and values. In consequence, this article will relfect on the inversions that are manifested in the stories -inversions of the concept of family, of roles and sexual practices, of the attitude toward AIDS- and in her own construction as a linguistic object in the light of queer theories and trans studies. The language employed -crude and violent- and the images portrayed -which are linked to abjection and repugnance- will be analyzed to show the particular way in which Menstrual constructs the margin that positions her writing and gives shape to her stories. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2011-11-24 Issue No. 17 (2011): Queerencias. Literaturas hispánicas y estudios LGBTQ Section Dossier License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
