Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity: From Sensuality to Bloodshed (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures)

This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality, and power in Mexican literature and the arts. The analysis includes literature, visual art, and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, and the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of the neo-liberal order in the 1980s to the present. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 1 Introduction......Page 10 Part 1 Sensual Interventions......Page 18 2 Sense of Sensuality......Page 20 3 The Perturbing Dress: Transvestism in Visual Arts......Page 42 Part 2 The Homosocial Passions......Page 62 4 Intimacy in the War: The Revolutionary Desire......Page 64 5 The Sentimental Men: Educating Machos in Mexican Cinema......Page 84 Part 3 Enlightening Machismo......Page 104 6 Building on the Negative: The Diagnosis of the Nation......Page 106 7 Inferiority and Rancor: The Fearful Mestizo......Page 122 Part 4 Vanishing Identities......Page 138 8 Mayate: The Queerest Queer......Page 140 9 The Invisible Man: Masculinity and Violence......Page 158 Notes......Page 174 Bibliography......Page 180 D......Page 188 M......Page 189 U......Page 190 Z......Page 191 This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of the neo-liberal order in the 1980s. This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality, and power in Mexican literature and the arts. The analysis includes literature, visual art, and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, and the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of the neo-liberal order in the 1980s to the present Intimacy in the War : the revolutionary desire -- The sentimental man : educating machos in Mexican cinema -- Building on the negative : the diagnosis of the nation -- Inferiority and rancor : the fearful Mestizo sense of sensuality -- The perturbing dress : transvestism in visual arts -- Mayate : the queerest queer -- The invisible man : masculinity and violence