Danger Zones: Homosexuality, Nationa Identity, and Mexican Culture

by Claudia Schaefer

Book Overview

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 Jos Toledo: The Fantasies of a Middle-Class Bureaucrat
2. The Power of Subversive Imagination: Utopian Discourse in the Novels of Luis Zapata and Jos 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 Calder n's Dos mujeres
5. Just Another Material Girl? La hermana secreta de Ang lica Mar a and the Seduction of the Popular
6. From "Infernal Realms of Delinquency" to Cozy Caba as in Cuernavaca: Jos Joaqu n Blanco's Visions of Homosexuality

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816516669
• ISBN13: 9780816516667
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"