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Modernity and the nation in Mexican representations of masculinity : from sensuality to bloodshed

Title
Modernity and the nation in Mexican representations of masculinity : from sensuality to bloodshed / Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba.
Author
Domínguez Ruvalcaba, Héctor, 1962-
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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Description
182 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Summary
"This Book Discusses the Ways in which representation of the masculine body has intervened in the Mexican political and social contexts. The main arguments focus on the constructions and deconstructions of the Mexican gender system in three main historical periods: the Porfirian regime (1876-1911), the post-revolutionary era (ca. 1920-1980), and what can be considered the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of neo-liberal order (1980s to present). The relationship between sexuality, modernity, and national identity is traced through a variety of aesthetic expressions including narrative, essay, art, and cinema, reviewing machismo, misogvny, homophobia, and violence."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
New concepts in Latino American cultures
Uniform Title
New concepts in Latino American cultures.
Subject
  • Mexican literature > History and criticism
  • Masculinity in literature
  • National characteristics, Mexican, in literature
  • Violence in literature
  • Masculinity in motion pictures
  • Machismo in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures > Mexico
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-177) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Sense of Sensuality -- 3. The Perturbing Dress: Transvestism in Visual Arts -- 4. Intimacy in the War: The Revolutionary Desire -- 5. The Sentimental Men: Educating Machos in Mexican Cinema -- 6. Building on the Negative: The Diagnosis of the Nation -- 7. Inferiority and Rancor: The Fearful Mestizo -- 8. Mayate: The Queerest Queer -- 9. The Invisible Man: Masculinity and Violence.
ISBN
  • 0230600441
  • 9780230600447
OCLC
  • 122701414
  • SCSB-5371155
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries