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According to Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres, theorist, poet, and award-winning writer, "for many years the Caribbean has been a desire factory for the rest of the World.[.]", thus her writing seeks to "include those issues considered exotic and reveal them as a different kind of knowledge: there is laughter, joy, a way of imagining desire and experiencing the body differently that is unique.There is where I place myself, because I do not want to be anything but Caribbean." The result is one of the most original and powerful voices in contemporary Latin American fiction. Not surprisingly her first novel explores the world of Puerto Rican drag queens. Sirena Selena vestida de pena ("Syren Selena, dressed in sorrow" might be a fair translation) tells the story of the title character -Sirena Selena- and his/her Puerto Rico drag queen cabaret-owner mentor -Miss Martha Divine- as they travel, glamour and all, to the still chaste Dominican Republic to present his/her bolero singing drag performance. The author embues the main character the author with the enigma of seduction, both beautiful and monstrous, and what could be considered an opposition between Truth and Reality. Leocadio, formerly a drug addicted child -owner of an extraordinary bolero singing voice- has been rescued from the streets of Puerto Rico and transformed by his rescuer into Sirena Selena, the mesmerizing trans vestite singer-entertainer, both characters setting their respective hopes in making a fortune to escape a haphazard life. To Martha Divine the child must "become who she really is", a Caribbean bolero singing drag queen, because the only way she will be able to harmonize his/her interior and exterior self is by being reborn as the diva Sirena Selena. Ironically truth and harmony stem from the bifurcated nature of a mythical figure -half human, half monster- unstoppable in its seduction. The tragic aspect arises from Sirena Selena's awareness that his/her attraction resides equally in the awesome perfection of her presence and in the knowledge that it is merely a performance, the dramatization of a gender identity that simultaneously is and is not essentially hers. The fluent and musical Spanish prose of Sirena Selena constitutes a rare reading pleasure on many different levels, including that of the casual reader who, like the audience in the cabaret, will succumb to the mysterious and seductive divas, as well as on a level of sharp literary critique that will find in the identity creating "protectress" a twin soul in the process of concealing desires under layers of quotes and counter-quotes. In this edition the foreword by prof. Debra A. Castillo discloses these clever mechanisms, while her footnotes help readers to enjoy this intelligent and intrinsically poetic text.

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Mayra Santos-Febres (Carolina, Puerto Rico, 26 de febrero de 1966) es una escritora puertorriqueña. Comenzó a publicar poemas desde el 1984 en revistas y periódicos internacionales tales como Casa de las Américas de Cuba, Página doce de Argentina, Revue Noire de Francia y Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, en Nueva York. En el 1991 aparecen sus dos poemarios: Anamú y manigua, libro que fue seleccionado como uno de los 10 mejores del año por la crítica puertorriqueña, y El orden escapado, ganador del primer premio para poesía de la Revista Tríptico en Puerto Rico.

En el 2010 la editorial Trilce de México publicó Tercer Mundo, su tercer poemario. Además de poeta, Mayra Santos-Febres es ensayista, y narradora. Como cuentista ha ganado el Premio Letras de Oro (Estados Unidos, 1994) por su colección de cuentos Pez de vidrio, y el Premio Juan Rulfo de cuentos (París, 1996) por su Oso Blanco. En el 2000 Grijalbo Mondadori en España publicó su primera novela titulada Sirena Selena vestida de pena que ya cuenta con traducciones al inglés, italiano, francés y que quedó como finalista del Premio Rómulo Gallegos de Novela en el 2001. En el 2002 Grijalbo Mondadori publicó su segunda novela Cualquier miércoles soy tuya.
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