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This article examines bodily representations and gender constructions in the short story collection “Cómo ser Charles Atlas” by Panamanian writer Pedro Crenes Castro. Through detailed textual analysis grounded in feminist critical theory and gender studies, it argues that Crenes Castro configures the body as a literary territory where traditional notions of masculinity and femininity are negotiated, reinforced, and subverted. The research specifically analyzes six stories from the collection, identifying recurring patterns: the crisis of hegemonic masculinity, the sociocultural surveillance of the female body, the representation of dissident corporealities, and the intersection between body, gender, and death. The article concludes that Crenes Castro’s work offers a complex vision of gendered corporeality that significantly contributes to the contemporary Central American literary tradition, proposing critical readings of gender roles within the Panamanian sociocultural context.
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