Transgenderism and social dissent in Marcial Gala’s Llámenme Casandra

Abstract

This article examines the literary representation of dissident sexual and gender subjectivities in revolutionary Cuba in Marcial Gala’s novel Llámenme Casandra (2019). Grounded in queer, gender, and cultural studies, it analyzes how gender fluidity challenges the state apparatus of social control that punishes any infringement of the “new man” model. It also reflects on the stigmatization of gender transgressions and its impact on the articulation of transgender subjectivities devoid of agency.

Keywords

• Cuban Revolution
• Marcial Gala
• transgenderism
• gender fluidity
• transphobia
• literature and literary criticism