Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity: From Sensuality to BloodshedPalgrave Macmillan, 2007 M10 15 - 182 pages 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. |
Contents
Sense of Sensuality | 11 |
Transvestism in Visual Arts | 33 |
The Revolutionary Desire | 55 |
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