Between Camp And Cursi

Author : Brandon P. Bisbey
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438486673

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Between Camp and Cursi by Brandon P. Bisbey Pdf

Between Camp and Cursi examines the role of humor in portrayals of homosexuality in contemporary Mexican literature. Brandon P. Bisbey argues that humor based on camp and cursilería—a form of "bad taste" that expresses a sense of social marginalization—is used to represent key social conflicts and contradictions of modernity in Mexico. Combining perspectives from queer theory, humor theory, and Latin American cultural studies, Bisbey looks at a corpus of canonical and lesser-known texts that treat a range of topics relevant to contemporary discussions of gender, sexuality, race, and human rights in Mexico—including sex work, transvestitism, bisexuality, same-sex marriage, racism, classism, and homophobic and transphobic violence. Emphasizing the subversive possibilities of the comic, Between Camp and Cursi considers how this body of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature has challenged heteronormativity in Mexico and wrestled more broadly with both the colonial underpinnings of modernity and hegemonic Western gender norms.

Author : Ana María Reyes
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781478004554

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The Politics of Taste by Ana María Reyes Pdf

In The Politics of Taste Ana María Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz González and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who championed González's art during Colombia's National Front coalition government (1958–74). During this critical period in Latin American art, artistic practice, art criticism, and institutional objectives came into strenuous yet productive tension. While González’s triumphant debut excited critics who wanted to cast Colombian art as modern, sophisticated, and universal, her turn to urban lowbrow culture proved deeply unsettling. Traba praised González's cursi (tacky) recycling aesthetic as daringly subversive and her strategic localism as resistant to U.S. cultural imperialism. Reyes reads González's and Traba's complex visual and textual production and their intertwined careers against Cold War modernization programs that were deeply embedded in the elite's fear of the masses and designed to avert Cuban-inspired revolution. In so doing, Reyes provides fresh insights into Colombia's social anxieties and frustrations while highlighting how interrogations of taste became vital expressions of the growing discontent with the Colombian state.

Author : Masha Salazkina
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520400764

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Romancing Yesenia by Masha Salazkina Pdf

One of the Best Scholarly Books of 2023, The Chronicle of Higher Education A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book follows the production, transnational circulation, and reception of the highest grossing film in the history of Soviet exhibition, the 1971 Mexican romance Yesenia. The film adaptation of a telenovela based on a wildly popular graphic novel set during the Second Franco-Mexican War became a surprise hit in the USSR, selling more than ninety million tickets in the first year of its Soviet release alone. Drawing on years of archival research, renowned film scholar Masha Salazkina takes Yesenia’s unprecedented popularity as an entry point into a wide-ranging exploration of the cultures of Mexico and the Soviet Union in the 1970s and of the ways in which popular culture circulated globally. Paying particular attention to the shifting landscape of sexual politics, Romancing "Yesenia" argues for the enduring importance and ideological ambiguities of melodramatic forms in global popular media.

Author : Noël Valis
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822384281

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The Culture of Cursilería by Noël Valis Pdf

Not easily translated, the Spanish terms cursi and cursilería refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nineteenth century. Like "kitsch," cursi evokes the idea of bad taste, but it also suggests one who has pretensions of refinement and elegance without possessing them. In The Culture of Cursilería, Noël Valis examines the social meanings of cursi, viewing it as a window into modern Spanish history and particularly into the development of middle-class culture. Valis finds evidence in literature, cultural objects, and popular customs to argue that cursilería has its roots in a sense of cultural inadequacy felt by the lower middle classes in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Spain. The Spain of this era, popularly viewed as the European power most resistant to economic and social modernization, is characterized by Valis as suffering from nostalgia for a bygone, romanticized society that structured itself on strict class delineations. With the development of an economic middle class during the latter half of the nineteenth century, these designations began to break down, and individuals across all levels of the middle class exaggerated their own social status in an attempt to protect their cultural capital. While the resulting manifestations of cursilería were often provincial, indeed backward, the concept was—and still is—closely associated with a sense of home. Ultimately, Valis shows how cursilería embodied the disparity between old ways and new, and how in its awkward manners, airs of pretension, and graceless anxieties it represents Spain's uneasy surrender to the forces of modernity. The Culture of Cursilería will interest students and scholars of Latin America, cultural studies, Spanish literature, and modernity.

Author : Valerie Rohy
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781438428666

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Anachronism and Its Others by Valerie Rohy Pdf

Author : Kathy Bacon
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Saints in literature
ISBN : 9781904350927

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Negotiating Sainthood

Author : Teresa Eckmann
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780826366030

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Julio Galán by Teresa Eckmann Pdf

From his provincial origins in the small northern Mexico town of Múzquiz, Coahuila, to his meteoric rise in Manhattan's East Village art scene, to having achieved international standing at the time of his early death at forty-seven, Julio Galán was radically transgressive. The artist extended contemporary Mexican painting beyond the cultural criticism of Neo-Mexicanism (neomexicanismo), redefining Mexican identity as gender-expansive in his art. Galán combined gender-fluid imagery, his performative persona, queer self-representation, and cross-cultural visual and textual references to create large-scale, layered, dialogical visual puzzles. An artist ahead of his time, Galán's content and imagery is relevant to contemporary LGBTQ+ social movements. Replete with full-color reproductions of Galán's artwork and photographic material, Teresa Eckmann's book serves as the first English-language monograph on the artist's life and work. Anyone interested in art in Mexico and Latin America will find this book an indispensable addition to their library, and it will be a core book on the study of this artist for decades to come.

Author : Marti M. Lybeck
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438452210

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Desiring Emancipation by Marti M. Lybeck Pdf

Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany. Desiring Emancipation traces middle-class German women’s claims to gender emancipation and sexual subjectivity in the pre-Nazi era. The emergence of homosexual identities and concepts in this same time frame provided the context for expression of individual struggles with self, femininity, and sex. The book asks how women used new concepts and opportunities to construct selves in relationship to family, society, state, and culture. Taking a queer approach, Desiring Emancipation’s goal is not to find homosexuals in history, but to analyze how women reworked categories of gender and sex. Marti M. Lybeck interrogates their desires, demonstrating that emancipation was fraught with conflict, anachronism, and disappointment. Each chapter is a microhistorical recreation of the actions, writings, contexts, and conflicts of specific groups of women. The topics include the experience of first-generation university students, public debates about female homosexuality, and the stories of three civil servants whose careers were ruined by workplace accusations of homosexuality. The book concludes with a debate between the women who joined the 1920s homosexual movement on the meanings of their new identities.

Author : Jill Robbins
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816669899

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Crossing Through Chueca by Jill Robbins Pdf

An exploration of queer Madrid's physical and symbolic literary culture.

Author : Paul Lewis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438410708

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Comic Effects by Paul Lewis Pdf

Lewis draws on both humor theories and research, arguing for the development of interdisciplinary methodologies in the study of literary humor. He demonstrates that the sociologist of humor and the comic playwright approach the same subject—humor in and between groups—with different tools, that writers of Bildungsromane and developmental psychologists share a common interest in the role of humor in maturation, and that the monsters that haunt the psyches of professional comedians can be useful in understanding the odd minglings of humor and fear in Gothic fiction. His treatment of writers who differ widely in their use of humor suggests that the complexity and diversity of humor make it a richly variable determinant of character, genre, and writer.

Author : Emily Hind
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230113497

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Femmenism and the Mexican Woman Intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska by Emily Hind Pdf

Hind draws on poetry, short stories, plays, novels, photographs, personal correspondence, advertising, and interviews to make visible the anti-feminine tendencies in femmenism and to imagine a femmenism that will appeal to the next generation of women.

Author : Diana Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822331233

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The Archive and the Repertoire by Diana Taylor Pdf

DIVAn interdisciplinary study about the centrality of performance in Latin American culture and politics./div

Author : Manuel Betancourt
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781646222223

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The Male Gazed by Manuel Betancourt Pdf

Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the service of helping us reframe how we talk about (desiring) men—this insightful memoir-in-essays is as much a coming of age as a coming out book Manuel Betancourt has long lustfully coveted masculinity—in part because he so lacked it. As a child in Bogotá, Colombia, he grew up with the social pressure to appear strong, manly, and, ultimately, straight. And yet in the films and television he avidly watched, Betancourt saw glimmers of different possibilities. From the stars of telenovelas and the princes of Disney films to pop sensation Ricky Martin and teen heartthrobs in shows like Saved By the Bell, he continually found himself asking: Do I want him or do I want to be him? The Male Gazed grapples with the thrall of masculinity, examining its frailty and its attendant anxieties even as it focuses on its erotic potential. Masculinity, Betancourt suggests, isn’t suddenly ripe for deconstruction—or even outright destruction—amid so much talk about its inherent toxicity. Looking back over decades’ worth of pop culture’s attempts to codify and reframe what men can be, wear, do, and desire, this book establishes that to gaze at men is still a subversive act. Written in the spirit of Hanif Abdurraqib and Olivia Laing, The Male Gazed mingles personal anecdotes with cultural criticism to offer an exploration of intimacy, homoeroticism, and the danger of internalizing too many toxic ideas about masculinity as a gay man.

Author : Noël Valis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300152340

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Sacred Realism by Noël Valis Pdf

In this thoughtful and compelling book, leading Spanish literature scholar Noël Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and faith have focused largely on religious themes, Sacred Realism views the religious impulse as a crisis of modernity: a fundamental catalyst in the creative and moral development of Spanish narrative.

Author : Sarah Attfield
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030459017

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Class on Screen by Sarah Attfield Pdf

This book provides an analysis of the global working class on film and considers the ways in which working-class experience is represented in film around the world. The book argues that representation is important because it shapes the way people understand working-class experience and can either reinforce or challenge stereotypical depictions. Film can shape and shift discussions of class, and this book provides an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which working-class experience is portrayed through this medium. It analyses the impact of contemporary films such as Sorry To Bother You, This is England and Le Harve that focus on working class life. Attfield demonstrates that the global working class are characterised by diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality but that there are commonalities of experience despite geographical distance and cultural difference. The book is structured around themes such as work, culture, diasporas, gender and sexuality, and race.