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Mexican Masculinities by Robert McKee Irwin

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Mexican Masculinities by Robert McKee Irwin

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(CULTURAL STUDIES OF THE AMERICAS died by George Yd, Jan Franco, and Joan Fores Volume 11 Mesicon Mascalnes Rotert McKee Irvin Volume 10 Capi omen: Oblivion and Memory in Argentina ‘Sostna Rotter °-¢ Volume 9 Bander Womens Writing fom La Frontera Debra A Csillo and Maria SoeoroTabuenca Cord Volume 8 Masking ad Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Coribbeon Gecad Aching Volume 7 Scenes from Postmodern Life esr Salo Volune 6 Consumers and Cicer: Globaition and Mulbicltural Conte Neste Garis Canc Volume 5 Masi in Cuba ‘Aj Carpentie Volume 4 Infiies Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies RobiaTath Goodman Volune 3 Laie Americana Tomé dls Carpe Volume 2 Disdenifctions: Quer of Color and the Performance of ales Jat Fetsan Meuor Volume 1 The Fence andthe River: Clture and Poltes atthe (US-Mesco Border (hie Fox MEXICAN MASCULINITIES Robert McKee Irwin Calturl Studies ofthe Amerteas University of Minnesota Press Minmeapos London LOS 41 MARICONES ’ncontrados en un lrtile + ala Pas 20 de Nove n': oe Appt estén los Maricones MUY CHULOS Y COQUETONES. Braid “Lo 41 marc Aa etn los marcos, ny culos 4 coqutons Here are th anes bry ete nd congue Ae tool by ont Cusdlape Posada, 180% Cony of Harty Reson Hamano Resa Coven, Univer of Tena of has Introduction The Hidden Vices of los Hijos de la Chingada El Antro Inmoral de Eneilecimiento {Qu degra reed, sala, repaid po toss se ‘recone neds lcci mde dos egrets sve ‘rund lr open lye ii dt pope 1s os & lt ‘Sern lines conmoveores dea mara! hace digrace ove degrade ned oe epee ol eer Sonn cul no the eur cer ool rede lsing ees © ‘he die ewe of pores and arto the ablieané moving eens meal ‘Who have angered the above weer so remendouly that be would unleash such invective apne them? What have dey done ha i 50 ‘erie thahey ae tbe “repodited or all generations"? How have they simultane threatened progrest and moraliy? The abore atatr gots ont ace hem of having commited a horibl vie 1 el ce vio gu eon ena cop Sela pronicin mdse Thnadoyre go aces borne lo dei, cot hel ne smal del evi y de oeapion, oe rope ‘soos alos, pars no pura eu ad he vi ht wie which velows om the cup of he mos ‘led wamonney ta hich kes aves of men abd denigats them tothe pit at hy lt thera den lian ad {ovrpn, wich belt shackle in hon Bs, 50 te tno aver an become pare (Cara 165) [Novelit Edaardo Casein ig ecandalied by che behavior of the famous 4, a group of transvestites sree in 1901 when thee private bal wat raided by the Mexico City police. Men dressed as Toscano, Mara Enriqueta, and Nellie Campobello, and the none sy fame of writers Antonieta Rives Metcado and Guadalupe Mati, ‘eeween national ecary heroine Sor Juana Ines de la Cut tn the seventeenth century and Mexico's frercanonzed anon Rosaria Cas telaos and Elen Garonhe fis and sities there wee osnajor female writers in Mexico, agey due to persion sexism within na tional terse isin. Indeed, che best-known women to have wrinen in Mexico during its Sit 150 years following independence from Spin are Sconsh visor FancesCaldern de la Barca and ‘Chilean guest Gilfieln Mista? {eis surprise then hat tera construction of nation by canon ‘aed male writers should have been about men ad mascling, With ihe most important being Federico Gem boas San, the ery pertonages who represent Mens are men Lizards Peiqilo Sarnientos the various bandos, good or bof the nineteenth ceotuy from the novel of Iein, Pano, and Ignace Aamicano (El Zarco};revoluonary leaders like Demro Maat ‘of Azula Los de abo: Marin Luis Guaman’sposreolutionary audio: and Ralf's Pedo itamo and his sons This suds iapeed by and complementary tothe shove mentioned feminist projec i Inks she growing body of work on masculinity and homosemalty in Mexico to ierary constructions ofthe nation by rereading the ‘heroic uses of masculiniy in canonical toms by offering come emenary readings of lesser known text by elativly well nwa tutors such a Jost Tomés de Calan, Angel de Cano, Nereor XavieeVillasrtin, Novo, Francico Rojas Gonzle: by ncadiog ‘ex, often ttle Enowa, by women writers such at Beragin de Toscano and Mac Luisa Gara, slong with beer known works by Campobeio and Castellanos; and by searching out forgotten tex, offen ead in thee dy a poplar tion (and cheefre na stu ature incng Casein Los 4, alongwith ence Sion novels of eugene and serogyny. ‘Theres of texts under consideration ate ear, then, bt in 8 bwoad seme. While here no dou thar the isin of chigh Fe strove co construct a shared notion of Mescanness ring ‘he ene period covered here the ellecsienes of this enterprise must nly a few exceptions, ov ore At Ang Raa bas made a cidade dei ah nto Meta cae sl pepe ‘Steels sor eared ssn oml rer ‘Sirs ons allel ond ana rahe ‘cma et ikng of ny bry per try of encom or cd hse eee ay ecinctinsin ey ware mares ug ey ts rst ere Tis er ya he peo te [yan bing we wey cies fap Bes ‘Deron o Mes eset pom mao! ete ‘tonton“heo lol yop Alay or eam ‘tudor pd let ee seo dl psig de mere {De ese prs nse. Pw el pron, queda sea, porno ue es [os ly Ane ol dog iho of dr an owe col et ay he edi of esas cle fore tte ao, preg manele pent sr iiay hve sel Ce ar 1), odo cae oe ‘ede nacho ele nd exe ap cease ‘Tac evento ear tp a poe Sonatas gud Dame esl te paso onl, igh Hate ln amo el he whole oro const pao, Fr these ee we Sondre erecting cope, owes po rr snd cen ad tc) sen fr rae of iri anh og Tes oo ain pou pen of chan compe ad sere een ba Specs vray of arate been ne fee tna of Meno leas «Pein we of pe Senos onc nd coc ech et ad ees tnd pa» bar of Mveenes a a then "Non ht os Mes wt he its st chon wb Mosc and psd in Mesa Nos ‘pete on wht ne Msbans te aed OF ees + ate works writen about Mexicans by forsgnes, works often pu sted abroad andi ther langage. Cel, many Mexican novels by Mexican authors were St publhedabrond, sometimes her Iangsags, including not just books by margial.red authors such 3 Enriuet (El secret, Spin) and Gare (La novia de Nero. United States, but also norels by canonied authors such ay Nev (El baci, ance, in French) and even Azula (Los de bj, United Sates). John Reeds Insurgent Mexico, according to sch an ep ‘emology,& stich a novel of the revoition ay Refeel Mur’ ‘Vamanos on Banco Vila! nd Vilrea’s Pacho i a3 vada ex oration of Mexicannes as Par El labernt de a soledad-—and i ' cling that che prox-Chicanoarcheype ofthe pacha is key to oth works. ‘Mexico here is defined in neither pol, nor geographic, nor ‘cia, br cultural ems." Mexican erature by this deinion, ie hide any ext that grow ou af, examin, shape or elle corey oF not) Mexican culture" whether in Mexico or esewhere, Ths, fen though the Mexicamnessofcizen of Menico Cy may die in many ways from the Mexicanos of ucend- or thie-generation ‘umigrans in Southern California, both groupe lary Belceehey share common elure as Mexicans, Cites such as lars Anzaldse have argued ffecively tar che border prodeces ts own feagmented, brid cule, ba his doesnot imply that Mesicanness doesnot ‘esp int the Borderlands of the southwestern United State: “Deep ‘nour hears we belive that bing Mexican has nothing to do with which country one lives in. Being Mencanis a state of soul—not oe of mind, not one of cizenship” (62). This Chicas inapited vision of Mexicaness shapes his stay, allowing Mexianness to scape the arial confines of geographic, linguist, and pial ocd Mercover notions of Mexicanness decribed by foreigners ao

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