num_pages: 159
description: Homosexuality has appeared as a secondary theme in the fictional works of numerous mainstream writers in contemporary Mexico. Here, the author deals with issues of gender identity when they emerge as metaphorical red flags signaling cultural danger zones along the path to harmonious national discourse. By focusing on the representation of homosexuality in a variety of texts produced between 1964 and 1994, the book also delineates complex relationships within Mexican society.1. El diario de José The Fantasies of a Middle-Class Bureaucrat2. The Power of Subversive Utopian Discourse in the Novels of Luis Zapata and José Rafael Calva3. On the Cutting El jinete azul and the Aesthetics of the Abyss4. Monobodies, Antibodies, and the Body Sara Levi Calderón’s Dos mujeres5. Just Another Material Girl? La hermana secreta de Angélica María and the Seduction of the Popular6. From "Infernal Realms of Delinquency" to Cozy Cabañas in José Joaquín Blanco’s Visions of Homosexuality
language: English
title: Danger Zones: Homosexuality, National Identity, and Mexican Culture
titlecomplete: Danger Zones: Homosexuality, National Identity, and Mexican Culture
ratings_count: 3
publisher: University of Arizona Press