Consuming Citizens

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Countercultural Bodies in Twentieth-Century Mexico

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou, Ivan Eusebio Aguirre Darancou

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Explores twentieth-century Mexican counterculture through the lens of pleasure, body autonomy, and music and film undergrounds.Consuming Citizens offers a fresh conception of twentieth-century Mexican cultural production by critically tracing the underside of mestizo modernity. Examining a diverse corpus that includes poetry, song, avant-garde film, and more from the 1920s to '80s, the volume uses queer, feminist, and psychedelic theories to understand counterculture-and especially different acts of consumption-as a way of creating culture and alternative social structures. Practices of consuming media, sex, and drugs become means of generating community among subjects who have been marginalized by the nominally inclusive mestizo nation. Consuming Citizens thus rethinks nationalism, citizenship, and society in relation to, and as creations of, countercultural bodies.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-02
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt494 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Genders in the Global South
Antal sidor354
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9798855802290

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What Are Countercultural Bodies and Why Do They/We Matter?1. Pelonas, pintoras y periodistas: México as a Metropolis of Women2. Neobaroque Bodies and Same-Sex Desires: Anal Politics of Salvador Novo and Abigael Bohórquez3. Bodies of Knowledge, Psychedelic Journeying, and the Writing of Space: The Liberatory Countercultures of Margarita Dalton and Parménides García Saldaña4. Counterculture Commodified and Sexual Liberation: Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy in Fernando del Paso’s Palinuro de México and the Rebellious Female Protagonists of Sergio García Michel’s Super 8 Milimeter FilmsCoda. The Familiar Magicians of Alejandro Jodorowsky; Or, How to Mobilize Affectual Assemblages against the Neoliberalization of SubjectivityNotesWorks CitedIndex

"Consuming Citizens explores the underbelly of mestizo ideology in Mexico, from the 1920s to the late 1980s, when the discourse of neoliberalism solidified. Drawing from a remarkable breadth of primary sources, the book brings together a novel mix of literary and cultural figures under the conceptual umbrella of 'countercultural bodies'—including Cube Bonifant, Nahui Olin, Salvador Novo, Abigael Bohorquez, Margarita Dalton, Parménidez García Saldaña, Fernando del Paso, and Sergio García Michel. Foregrounding pleasure rather than identity as a basis of citizenship, Aguirre shows how countercultural bodies creatively intervene in their environments and how pleasure can serve as an unexpectedly powerful form of dissent." — Viviane Mahieux, author of Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America: The Shared Intimacy of Everyday Life