Conclusions: At the Crossroads of Nepantla

The transgressions of boundaries that we have observed in the works of the Latin American Neobaroque carry aesthetic, political, and philosophical implications of a larger cultural order. They  reveal the presence of nomadic  borderland subjects,  which unfolds the possibility for the reader, viewer, and critic to  reenvision the normative categorical concept of Identity, bound by a hegemonic heterosexual neocolonial system of the Logos, and to conceptualize an alternative model of selfhood in trans-identity. Approaching identity transformations and boundary crossings of established categories from the vantage point of Latin American literature and visual arts, particularly narrative and performance, allows us to conceive selfhood as transitivity and mobility, as flexible subjectivity. The neobaroque works’ inclusion of gender-bending themes of cross-dressing, androgyny, and queerness  leads us to consider boundary crossings, transits, and broader cultural and political transformations taking place in the hybrid and heterogeneous spaces of a decolonizing transcultural America. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, the Americas still represent a crossroads of cultures transited by shifting minoritarian and peripheral voices, some of which have found a form of expression in the exuberant style of the Neobaroque. These voices are the embodiment of a nomadic selfhood that shapes in the multiple borderland spaces of crossings, transits, and migrations that conform the Trans American borderland space of nepantla.