Mexican Masculinities (Cultural Studies of the Americas)
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0816640718 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is currently working on a book on constructions of masculinity in 19th and 20th-century Mexico. . of Comparative Literature at New York University. Irwin is a graduate student in the Dept
from a male perspective, !en Mexico! Jeffery Mingo Who says the academic discipline known as "queer theory" can't be applied to non-English literatures? Here McKee Irwin uses a sprinkle of Foucault, Butler, Sedgwick, and Michael Kimmel to discuss masculinity in Mexican literature. His biggest contention is that although others have theorized that the interracial heterosexual dyad or the cross-class dyad is the most striking feature of the Mexican literary canon, one very important dyad in this genre is that between men, espe
. About the Author Irwin is a graduate student in the Dept. He is currently working on a book on constructions of masculinity in 19th and 20th-century Mexico. of Comparative Literature at New York University
The rhetoric of "Mexicanness" makes constant use of images of masculinity, though it does so in shifting and often contradictory ways. As the first historical study of how masculinity and, particularly, homosexuality were understood in Mexico in the national era, this book not only provides "queer readings" of most major canonical texts of the period in question, but also uncovers a variety of unknown texts from queer Mexican history, including the 1906 novel Los 41, which reenacts the scandal of a turn-of-the-century transvestite ball that launched modern discussion of homosexuality in Mexico. The first of its kind and a powerful challenge to customary views of gender and sexuality in the life and literature of Mexico, this book traces literary representations of masculinity in Mexico from independence in 1810 to the 1960s, and shows how these intersect with the constructions of nation and nationality. It is a radical undermining of the simple hetero/homosexual and masculine/feminine oppositions that h