Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity: From Sensuality to Bloodshed

This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of the neo-liberal order in the 1980s.

Author: H. Domínguez-Ruvalcaba
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/08/2008
Pages: 182
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780230600447

About the Author
Hector Domínguez-Ruvalcabais Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin.