
Danger Zones
Homosexuality, National Identity, and Mexican Culture
Claudia Schaefer(Author)
University of Arizona Press
Will be published approx. on 30. September 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
159 pages
978-0-8165-1666-7 (ISBN)
Description
Homosexuality has appeared as a secondary theme in the fictional works of numerous mainstream writers in contemporary Mexico. Here, the author deals with issues of gender identity when they emerge as metaphorical red flags signaling cultural danger zones along the path to harmonious national discourse. By focusing on the representation of homosexuality in a variety of texts produced between 1964 and 1994, the book also delineates complex relationships within Mexican society. Contents:-1. El diario de Jose Toledo: The Fantasies of a Middle-Class Bureaucrat-2. The Power of Subversive Imagination: Utopian Discourse in the Novels of Luis Zapata and Jose Rafael Calva-3. On the Cutting Edge: El jinete azul and the Aesthetics of the Abyss-4. Monobodies, Antibodies, and the Body Politic: Sara Levi Calderon's Dos mujeres-5. Just Another Material Girl? La hermana secreta de Angelica Maria and the Seduction of the Popular-6. From "Infernal Realms of Delinquency" to Cozy Cabanas in Cuernavaca: Jose Joaquin Blanco's Visions of Homosexuality-
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Language
English
Place of publication
Tucson
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8165-1666-7 (9780816516667)
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Claudia Schaefer is the author of numerous studies on twentieth-century Spain and Latin America. She is professor of Hispanic literature and culture at the University of Rochester.