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AMERICAS SOCIETY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) The novel opens with the two on a plane to Santo Domingo, in the neighboring Dominican Republic, where Sirena's youth is less of an impediment to her selling her boleros at high-class tourist hotels. In Santo Domingo, she is seen by the wealthy and influential Hugo Graubel, who takes her to his mansion outside the city, ostensibly to have her sing at an important party, but, actually, to seduce her. Martha, in the meantime, continues to seek her fortune amid the homosexual/transsexual tourist industry of Santo Domingo. www.counciloftheamericas.org /as/literature/br63santos.html   (1080 words)

DeRLAS Vol. 5 No. 1 Roberts Santos Febres, having discovered her own place in the context of the island and that of language, finds herself forced to speak out to the people. Santos Febres skillfully enters the debate on the divide which is the heritage of the entire Caribbean and which still plagues the region up to the present day. Santos Febres points out that despite the apparent liberation, the Caribbean remains bedevilled by a cycle of dependency (on corporate USA) which is both economical and psychological. www.udel.edu /LASP/Vol5-1Roberts.html   (9132 words)

Santos Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print In this beautifully wrought memoir, an award-winning writer weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the soul of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people. Santos first came to the United States in 1941. Rosemarie Tong is the primary editor of this collection, in which she, Gwen Anderson, and Aida Santos look at such international issues as female... www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Santos   (1068 words)

The Vieques Visitor - Online Travel Guide - The Ages of (Homosexual) Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Santos Febres uses both the raunchy and the academic to build the reader’s consciousness of what it is to be gay in the Caribbean. Selena and two other frequently occurring characters illustrate the “ages of (homosexual) man.” Leocadio, a young Dominican boy wondering at his feminine features and the constant attention of perverts, represents the innocent child, in need of protection and unsure of what he is, yet is methodically developing a realization. Santos Febres succeeds in entrapping the reader in their stories- as Selena entraps those listening to her siren song- by appealing to these shared desires and creating empathy for our fellow flamboyant wo/man. www.viequesvisitor.com /en/departments/literary-gleanings/the-ages-of-homosexual-man.html   (485 words)

eBooks - Sirena Selena by Mayra Santos-Febres, Stephen Lytle - eReader.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) One evening while drugged out of his mind and picking over garbage in the backstreets of San Juan, a fifteen-year-old homeless boy is singing boleros in a mesmerizing voice that transfixes anyone who listens. Mayra Santos-Febres's sultry and beguiling Sirena Selena is such a novel, a secret, honeyed pleasure you will dream your way through. PAUL RUSSELL, AUTHOR OF "Mayra Santos-Febres is an enchantress; her words will seduce you even when the whole world is pressing on you. www.ereader.com /product/detail/970?book=Sirena_Selena   (481 words)

Holtzbrinck Academic Marketing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Part masque, part cabaret, Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena is a novel about our most basic desires and those who exploit and are exploited by them. "Mayra Santos-Febres is an enchantress; her words will seduce you even when the whole world is pressing on you. Mayra Santos-Febres is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Puerto Rico. www.holtzbrinckpublishers.com /academic/book/BookDisplay.asp?BookKey=255967   (577 words)

:: claridad :: Recibamos a Mayra Santos Febres   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Mayra Santos Febres no cree en la moderación, en el equilibrio, en apartarse demasiado ni acercarse demasiado, que suele ser la solución perfecta para el académico o el intelectual perfecto. Mayra cuenta que comenzó a pensar en la literatura cuando le empezaron a enseñar poemas de Palés Matos para que fuera Tembandumba de la Kimbamba. Como hijas de mujeres liberadas -cada una a su manera, (y la madre de Mayra, Mariana Febres, QEPD, ha merecido páginas hermosas en sus escritos)- no sabíamos cómo asumir la ‘mujerilidad’ que queríamos, la de nuestros tiempos, sin traicionar los logros y sacrificios de nuestras madres. www.claridadpuertorico.com /articulo.php?id=3248   (1068 words)

Amazon.ca: Sirena Selena: Books: Mayra Santos-Febres   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Santos first novel is a delight in Caribbean literature, Jul 18 2000 Santos also utilizes different points of view to complete the story and even incorporates parts in English that reflect the contradicting situation in the Caribbean. Santos involves the reader through a journey of music, love, and ambition using her best skills as a talented writer. www.amazon.ca /Sirena-Selena-Mayra-Santos-Febres/dp/0312252277   (1109 words)

Mayra's Siren Song - 4/1/2003 - Criticas - CA291501 Mayra's Siren Song - 4/1/2003 - Criticas - CA291501 One night early last December, novelist Mayra Santos-Febres took the stage at a packed reading at Manhattan's City College to celebrate the publication of Thomas Colchie's new anthology of contemporary Latin American literature, A Whistler in the Night World. Use of this web site is subject to its Terms and Conditions of Use. www.criticasmagazine.com /article/CA291501.html   (1560 words)

RCF - Book Reviews In her collection of short stories Mayra Santos-Febres distances herself from the power she exercises over her characters and the decisions they make; she doesn’t want to be the omniscient narrator playing God. Yet she also wants to acknowledge her own presence in the stories and to show in various strategies of self-revelation the power of narratives to construct reality. Throughout the stories is a careful probing of the materiality of the body—its pleasures and pains—bodies infused with the sweat of labor yet able as well to offer momentary escapes of pure sensuality. www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/97_3/urbanoracles.html   (204 words)

Amazon.com: santos: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Santos and Saints: The Religious Folk Art of Hispanic New Mexico by Thomas J. Steele (Paperback - Oct 1994) Santos: Enduring Images of Northern New Mexican Village Churches by Marie Romero Cash (Paperback - Jun 2003) Captulo I DFIDADES Y SANTOS n la antigedad se presentaban ofrendas a las deidades, junto... www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=santos&tag=basicvisualbasic&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1   (409 words)

Mayra Santos Febres Following this transgressive mode of writing, new young women writers have emerged, such as Mayra Santos Febres, an Afro-Caribbean scholar, poet, novelist and critic.  Mayra Santos' first book of short stories .   This paper shows that Mayra Santos Febres' short stories pinpoint the marginalization and social stratification marked by race, class and gender in contemporary Puerto Rican society, thus, the feminine voices in The value of Mayra Santos Febres' short stories is that for the first time ever in the history of Puerto Rican literature, the space of contemporary urban fl women has been acknowledged.  The language and style in www.tulanzuyua.net /marantilia/abs_mayra.html   (200 words)

Sirena Selena n her lush and tragicomic first novel, the Puerto Rican writer Mayra Santos-Febres recounts the transformation of a 15-year-old gay street hustler with a golden voice into a diva known as Sirena Selena. Martha Divine, a veteran drag queen on the San Juan gay scene, rescues the boy from the gutter, makes sure he has a few chanteuse-worthy gowns and takes him to perform at expensive hotels in the Dominican Republic, where Selena is discovered by Hugo Graubel, a wealthy businessman with an old secret. Santos-Febres examines questions of sexuality and power but does not lead her characters into a utopia: it's still all about who's got the money and who's on top. partners.nytimes.com /books/00/08/20/bib/000820.rv103953.html   (247 words)

Cultural Agents: Past Events, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Puerto Rican author and scholar Mayra Santos Febres will give a lecture on April 5 at the Baker Center 133 at 6pm. Santos Febres is a visiting professor at Harvard this semester and the acclaimed author of Sirena Selena vestida de pena. This Page was last updated: Tuesday, December 7, 2004 at 6:33:48 PM This site is using the Swim Fan theme. blogs.law.harvard.edu /culturalagency1/events2004   (397 words)

Santos-Febres, Mayra - Sirena Selena in dooyoo.it tutti i rapporti su Santos-Febres, Mayra - Sirena... Santos-Febres, Mayra - Sirena Selena : Una nuova promessa per il noir Serena Selena, di Mayra Santos Febres, portoricana, penetra in una realtà molto lontana dalla nostra: quella dei travestiti caraibici. www.dooyoo.it /romanzi/santos-febres-mayra-sirena-selena   (114 words)

Fictionwise eBooks: Mayra Santos-Febres Alert me when new Mayra Santos-Febres titles are added Bio: Mayra Santos-Febres was born in Puerto Rico. In 1991 she received her doctorate in literature from Cornell University, where she has since taught as a visiting professor. www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/MayraSantos-FebreseBooks.htm   (258 words)

Santos Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores In this unique and extraordinary text, Michael G. Santos helps others learn about the abnormal way of life behind the walls and fences of prisons. Santos and Saints: The Religious Folk Art of Hispanic New Mexico Search Santos from UK database and other international databases. www.bookfinder4u.com /search_4/Santos.html   (432 words)

mayra santos-febres - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA) mayra santos-febres - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA) Mayra Santos-Febres was born in Puerto Rico, and has won many prizes for her stories, including the 1994 Letras de Oro Prize granted by the University of Miami and the 1997 Juan Rulfo Prize awarded by Radio Sarandi in Paris. To keep up-to-date, input your email address, and we will contact you on publication us.penguingroup.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000062310,00.html   (88 words)

: en la orilla : Mayra Santos-Febres   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Mayra Santos-Febres es tal vez la poeta contemporánea más importante y de más presencia de Puerto Rico y el Caribe. Mayra Santos-Fébres ha publicado en un sinnúmero de revistas literarias de Estados Unidos, Latinoamérica y Europa. Recientemente ha incursionado en el género de novelear con las novelas home.coqui.net /nerudapr/escritor/mayra_santosfebres.htm   (938 words)

CENTRO: Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos y el trasvestimo cultural Fredi Veláscues le mete mano a Sirena Selena vestida de pena Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos-Febres: ¿transgresiones de espacio o espacio de transgresiones? www.centropr.org /journal/jrnal28.html   (180 words)

Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 00025261   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Sirena Selena / Mayra Santos-Febres ; translated by Stephen Lytle. Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher. www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/hol054/00025261.html   (185 words)

Mayra Santos Febres La gente apestaba a mierda, le daban un placer fortuito que lo dejaba solitario, melancólico y confundido tan pronto se acababa el último tremor. Los árboles no. Ellos tenían su espesor y su ricura, el suave verdor húmedo de las hojas brillosas del café de Indias o el calor picante de las hojas rugosas del orégano brujo, la cáscara de palo santo o las cortecitas de tártago le levantaban sudores de alivio en la piel. Lo más que disfrutaba era sacar resinas de árboles, hacerlos sangrar ámbares profundos y gomosos con los cuales, estaba seguro, se podía componer cualquier cosa que cruzara su imaginación. www.barcelonareview.com /17/s_msf.htm   (4468 words)

Sirena Selena - Mayra Santos-Febres - Palm Reader eBook Sirena Selena - Mayra Santos-Febres - Palm Reader eBook Home > eBook Categories > Literature > Modern Fiction > Palm Reader eBooks > Mayra Santos-Febres > Sirena Selena The eBook club is continually growing with more eBooks added frequently. www.ebookmall.com /ebook/135496-ebook.htm   (824 words)

Entrevista con Mayra Santos Febres acida en Puerto Rico en 1966, ganadora del premio Juan Rulfo para cuentos (1996) que otorga Radio Internationale de París, Mayra Santos Febres ha publicado dos libros de relatos: Pez de vidrio y El cuerpo correcto. Su primera novela Sirena Selena vestida de pena acaba de aparecer bajo el sello Mondadori (Barcelona, 2000) y será publicada en inglés éste verano por St. Martin's Press. En Sirena Selena, Santos Febres narra la historia de un joven gay convertido en performer por obra y gracia de su dulce voz, y el apoyo de Martha Divine, otra trasvesti que lo adopta. www.barcelonareview.com /17/s_ent_msf.htm   (1608 words)

:: Trance Liquido :: » Taller Mayra Santos Febres, UPR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) :: Trance Liquido :: » Taller Mayra Santos Febres, UPR Posted In: May 14, 2006 by Carmen Oquendo-Villar Este próximo miércoles 17 de mayo, a las 7:00pm en el Taller deCantautores, se celebrará la tradicional lectura del taller de cuentos de la U.P.R. dirigido por la escritora Mayra Santos-Febres. www.tranceliquido.com /2006/05/14/taller-mayra-santos-febres-upr   (110 words)

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