Modernity and the nation in Mexican representations of masculinity : from sensuality to bloodshed
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Modernity and the nation in Mexican representations of masculinity : from sensuality to bloodshed
（New concepts in Latino American cultures）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
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Bibliography: p.[171]-177
Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction * PART I: SENSUAL INTERVENTIONS * Sense of Sensuality * The Perturbing Dress: Transvestism in Visual Arts * PART II: THE HOMOSOCIAL PASIONS * Intimacy in the War: The Revolutionary Desire * The Sentimental Man: Educating Machos in Mexican Cinema * PART III: ENLIGHTENING MACHISMO * Building on the Negative: The Diagnosis of the Nation * Inferiority and Rancor: The Fearful Mestizo * PART IV: VANISHING IDENTITIES * Mayate: The Queerest Queer * The Invisible Man: Masculinity and Violence
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