Surname 1
Student's Name
Professor's Name
Course Number
Date of Submission
Sirena Selena
Date of Submission This novel is a follow-up to Sirena Selena's well-received short fiction
collection, seen by Santos-Febres, a poet, and a theorist, exploring the world of struggle queens.
A young man called Sirenito is rescued from the streets by Martha Divine, who is termed to be an
owner of a floorshow. Martha converts Sirenito into Sirena Selena, a compulsive transvestite
singer-entertainer, hoping to make their fortunes and escape from the risks of uncertainties.
Meanwhile, all-knowing, Sirena grows fascinating insight towards Divine while auditing at a noble
hotel at Santo Domingo. While in the hotel, Sirena is strived to entertain a wealthy businessman
known as Hugo Graubel III, and the businessman recognizes Sirena as the woman of his dreams.
In review, this essay discusses the roles of gender, functions of trauma, violence, functions of
families, the role of voice in Serena Silena, and argues Leoadio's role in Sirena Selena.
As theorized by Judith Butler, gender is a performative deed and creation in a given
collective and supremacy relation, a repetition that has no foundation or sanity. From this view, in
our strength to accept gender, we became the slog queens in our gender trials (Butler 15). This
part also shows functions and the hierarchies of oppositions (male/female) in power and the
application of heterosexuality, organization of gender hierarchies fueled by homophobia. Mayra
Santos Febres narrates a story of a person who found a possible way out of his life as a transsexual
prostitute through his unusual gift. The story of evolution to professional slog actor painted
Student's Name
Professor's Name
Course Number
Date of Submission
Sirena Selena
Date of Submission This novel is a follow-up to Sirena Selena's well-received short fiction
collection, seen by Santos-Febres, a poet, and a theorist, exploring the world of struggle queens.
A young man called Sirenito is rescued from the streets by Martha Divine, who is termed to be an
owner of a floorshow. Martha converts Sirenito into Sirena Selena, a compulsive transvestite
singer-entertainer, hoping to make their fortunes and escape from the risks of uncertainties.
Meanwhile, all-knowing, Sirena grows fascinating insight towards Divine while auditing at a noble
hotel at Santo Domingo. While in the hotel, Sirena is strived to entertain a wealthy businessman
known as Hugo Graubel III, and the businessman recognizes Sirena as the woman of his dreams.
In review, this essay discusses the roles of gender, functions of trauma, violence, functions of
families, the role of voice in Serena Silena, and argues Leoadio's role in Sirena Selena.
As theorized by Judith Butler, gender is a performative deed and creation in a given
collective and supremacy relation, a repetition that has no foundation or sanity. From this view, in
our strength to accept gender, we became the slog queens in our gender trials (Butler 15). This
part also shows functions and the hierarchies of oppositions (male/female) in power and the
application of heterosexuality, organization of gender hierarchies fueled by homophobia. Mayra
Santos Febres narrates a story of a person who found a possible way out of his life as a transsexual
prostitute through his unusual gift. The story of evolution to professional slog actor painted
