The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture / Edition 1

by Frederick Luis Aldama

Overview

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture is the first comprehensive volume to explore the intersections between gender, sexuality, and the creation, consumption, and interpretation of popular culture in the Américas.

The chapters seek to enrich our understanding of the role of pop culture in the everyday lives of its creators and consumers, primarily in the 20th and 21st centuries. They reveal how popular culture expresses the historical, social, cultural, and political commonalities that have shaped the lives of peoples that make up the Américas, and also highlight how pop culture can conform to and solidify existing social hierarchies, whilst on other occasions contest and resist the status quo. Front and center in this collection are issues of gender and sexuality, making visible the ways in which subjects who inhabit intersectional identities (sex, gender, race, class) are "othered", as well as demonstrating how these same subjects can, and do, use pop-cultural phenomena in self-affirmative and progressively transformative ways. Topics covered in this volume include TV, film, pop and performance art, hip-hop, dance, slam poetry, gender-fluid religious ritual, theater, stand-up comedy, graffiti, videogames, photography, graphic arts, sports spectacles, comic books, sci-fi and other genre novels, lotería card games, news, web, and digital media.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138894952
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/06/2018
Series:	Routledge Companions to Gender
Pages:	452
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, University Distinguished Scholar, and University Distinguished Teacher at The Ohio State University, USA. He is an award-winning author, co-author, and editor of over thirty books. He is editor and co-editor of eight academic press book series. He has been honored with the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education’s Outstanding Latino/a Faculty in Higher Education Award and inducted into the Academy of Teaching.

Table of Contents

List of figures; List of contributors;Introduction: Putting gender and sexuality at the center of all that goes pop in Latin America, Frederick Luis Aldama; PART I Transmedial re-mediations; Chapter 1 Hybrid mass culture, Debra A. Castillo; Chapter 2 The Latin American flâneur in the digital age, Osvaldo Cleger; Chapter 3 Intersections of gender and gaming in Latin America, Phillip Penix-Tadsen; Chapter 4 La lotería mexicana: Playing with heteronormativity, Stacey Alex; Chapter 5 Diasporic intersectionality: Colonial history and Puerto Rican hero narratives in 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente and La Borinqueña, Ivonne M. García; Chapter 6 Drawing up a ‘post’-Latin America: The possibilities and limits of gender imagination in post-apocalyptic, post-human, and post-historical graphic narrative, Mauricio Espinoza; Chapter 7 Tito Guízar on Radio Row: Intermediality, Latino identity, and two early 1930s Vitaphone shorts, Nicolas Poppe; PART II Bending genre; Chapter 8 Interior design and homoerotic spaces in José Asunción Silva’s De sobremesa, Sergio Macías; Chapter 9 Melodramatic attachments: On Puig’s Boquitas pintadas, Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui; Chapter 10 Sex with aliens: Dramatic irony in Daína Chaviano’s "The Annunciation", Matthew David Goodwin; Chapter 11 Villain or victim?: Undermining the memory of Japanese Peruvians in Augusto Higa Oshiro’s Gaijin (Extranjero), Shigeko Mato; Chapter 12 Art, literature, and mass media in Pedro Lemebel, Juan Poblete; PART III Re-constructing silver screen imaginaries; Chapter 13 Neoliberal pigmentocracies: Women and the elite body politic in neoliberal Mexican cinema, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado; Chapter 14 Class, gender, race in recent filmic urban Brazilian spaces, Samuel Cruz; 15 El roc ha muerto, viva el roc: Countercultural heroines in Sergio García Michel’s Super 8mm cinema, Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou; Chapter 16 Starring Mexico: Female stardom, age and mass media trajectories in the 20th century, Olivia Cosentino; Chapter 17 Hemisexualizing the Latin lover: Film and live art interpretations and provocations, Paloma Martinez-Cruz and John Cruz; Chapter 18 Transnational queerings and Sense8, Laura Fernández; Chapter 19 Good gringos, bad hombres: The postlapsarian films of Mel Gibson, Ryan Rashotte; PART IV Putting the feminist and queer pop in the pictorial arts; Chapter 20 Graffiti in Latin America: Preliminary notes, Ilan Stavans; Chapter 21 Graffiti School Comunidad: A feminist arts pedagogy of empowerment, Guisela Latorre and Marjorie Peñailillo; Chapter 22 Contemporary Amerindian imaginaries and the challenge of intersectional analysis, Arij Ouweneel; Chapter 23 The photography of Thomaz Farkas and the Estádo de Pacaembu: A theatre of Brazilian male homosociality, David William Foster; PART V Bend it like Pelé; Chapter 24 A "friendly" game: Homoaffectivity in Club de Cuervos, Patrick Thomas Ridge; Chapter 25 Reading race and gender in The Black Man in Brazilian Soccer and beyond, Jack A. Draper III; Chapter 26 Hard punches, vulnerable bodies: Latin American boxing films and the intersections of gender, class, and nation, Mauricio Espinoza and Luis Miguel Estrada Orozco; Chapter 27 "The Blizzard of Oz": Ozzie Guillén and Latino masculinities as spectacle, Jennifer Domino Rudolph; PART VI Alt-hemispheric sound and body performatics; Chapter 28 Somos Mujeres Somos Hip Hop: Feminism and hip hop in Latin America, Melissa Castillo-Garsow; Chapter 29 Weirded soundscapes in contemporary Chilean narrative, J. Andrew Brown; Chapter 30 Dance as medicine: Healing bodies in Nicaragua from the colonial period to the present, John Petrus and Jessica Rutherford; Chapter 31 Gender performativity and indigenous conceptions of duality in the Inti Raymi–Jatun Puncha Festivals of Cotacachi, Ecuador, Michelle Wibbelsman; PART VII Staging nuevo hemispheric identities; Chapter 32 Beside motherhood: Staging women’s lives in Latin American Theatre of the Real, Julie Ann Ward; Chapter 33 Can saraus speak to gender and migrant politics in São Paulo? Derek Pardue; 34 Transfeminism and fake mustachios: Sayak Valencia’s decolonial critique at the U.S.–Mexico border, Ignacio Corona; Chapter 35 Proud sinvergüenza or foolish maricón?: Manu NNa’s challenge to Mexican homonormativity, Doug Bush; Chapter 36 The Cuban Missile Crisis of white masculinity: Tito Bonito and the burlesque butt, Kristie Soares; Index