Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity
Subtitle: From Sensuality to Bloodshed (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780230600447
Subjects: Anthropology - Cultural; History & Theory - General; Social Science / Gender Studies; Gender Studies; Social Science; History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; Mexican literature; National characteristics, Mexican, in literature; Sociology
Description: His 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.