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Chronologically, the texts that are the primary objects of study range from a previously unpublished letter written in Colombia in the 1860s to a classic novel of the Mexican Revolution, experimental writing from the 1960s Mexican literary movement La Onda, an iconic Cuban film of the 1960s, and a l...

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Published in:Bulletin of Hispanic studies (Liverpool : Liverpool University Press : 1996) 2010-08, Vol.87 (6), p.641
Main Authors: Harris, Chris, Thakkar, Amit
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American literature
Concept formation
Critical theory
Culture
Editorials
Feminism
Gender identity
Hispanic people
Masculinity
Men
Novels
Sociology
Spanish language
Studies
Writing
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Summary:Chronologically, the texts that are the primary objects of study range from a previously unpublished letter written in Colombia in the 1860s to a classic novel of the Mexican Revolution, experimental writing from the 1960s Mexican literary movement La Onda, an iconic Cuban film of the 1960s, and a late 1970s Salvadoran collage epic. Since the 1980s there has been a noticeable increase in studies of masculinities and representations of those masculinities globally. Within Spanish and Latin American cultural studies there is also a growing body of extant cultural critique that successfully demonstrates the permeability of disciplinary boundaries while simultaneously challenging Western modes of analysis with nuanced, culture-specific criticism. Harris's article, drawing critically on Connell's conceptualization of masculinities as 'configurations of social practice', and on bell hooks' analysis of 'patriarchal masculinity' as a social disease, reads Los de abajo (1915) as a critique of three patriarchal 'gender regimes' and introduces the innovative notion of 'patriarchal affect'. In terms of feminist theories, one emerging area of research in the analysis of Latin American women's writing concerns the representation of alternatives to a dominant model of patriarchal masculinity.
ISSN:1475-3839
1478-3398