Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Enter the spider woman : an introduction to the narratives of the perverse -- 2. The impenetrability and the glory : ellipsing Lezama Lima -- 3. The moving target of fixated desire : Felisberto's paper dolls -- 4. Fashionable and unfashionable perversions on the Latin American Rive Gauche : Cortazar and Pizarnik read "The bloody countess" -- 5. (Triple-) cross-dressing the boom : Fuentes, Donoso, Sarduy, and the queer sixties -- Conclusion/epilogue : perverse narratives on the border.

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