The body as capital : masculinities in contemporary Latin American fiction / Vinodh Venkatesh.

• Part I. New historical masculinities -- 1. Commoditizing the male body in Margarita, esta linda la mar -- 2. Marketing masculinities in Nadie me vera llorar -- 3. Political masculinities in La fiesta del Chivo -- 4. Queer(ing) masculinities as the dictator falls -- Part II. Lyrical readings and the deterritorialization of masculinities -- 5. Defining the literary OST -- 6. Lyrical epistemologies and masculine desire -- 7. Homosocial dynamics and the spatiality of seduction -- 8. Franz Galich's Managua, Rock City -- Part III. Novel and transnational masculinities -- 9. Glocalized masculinities of the Barrio Alto -- 10. Materializing the penis -- 11. Challenging novel masculinities -- Conclusion: of tropes and men.

• "The book analyzes the notion of the male body as a dialogic site of enunciation, arguing that the writing of masculinities is a project centering socioeconomic and political concerns, anxieties, and paradigms on the male anatomy and on masculinities presented in fiction, forging a new path in the critical debates over gender and sexuality in Latin American writing"--Provided by publisher. 

Ämnesord

Manlighet i litteraturen  (sao)

Könsroller i litteraturen  (sao)

Människokroppen i litteraturen  (sao)

Latinamerikansk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Masculinity in literature.  (LCSH)

Latin American literature  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Human body in literature.  (LCSH)

Sex role in literature.  (LCSH)

Human body in literature.  (fast)

Latin American literature.  (fast)

Masculinity in literature.  (fast)

Sex role in literature.  (fast)

Masculinity in literature  (LCSH)

Sex role in literature  (LCSH)

Latin American literature  -- History and criticism (LCSH)

Body, Human, in literature  (LCSH)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

Klassifikation

PQ7081 (LCC)

860.9353 (DDC)