Men, Power and Liberation

Amit Thakkar is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the Department of European Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University, UK. His research interests include revolution, gender, violence and postcolonial theory in relation to Latin American film and literature.Chris Harris is Professor of Spanish and Head of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool, UK. His main research interests are focused on gendered approaches to the post-Revolutionary Mexican novel. He has published on various writers including Castellanos, Poniatowska, Azuela, Yáñez and Rulfo.

• 1. Introduction: Men, power and liberation: readings of masculinities in Spanish American literatures 2. "Una tercera lectura": the cinematic reader and the cult of virility in Manuel Puig’s El beso de la mujer araña (1976) 3. Power tug of war: hegemonic and posthegemonic text control in Gustavo Sainz’s Obsesivos días circulares (1969) 4. "But how to speak of such things?": decolonial love, the coloniality of gender, and political struggle in Francisco Goldman’s The Long Night of White Chickens (1992) and Jennifer Harbury’s Bridge of Courage (1994) and Searching for Everardo (1997) 5. From Araucanian warriors to Mapuche terrorists: contesting discourses of gender, race, and nation in modern Chile (1810-2010) 6. "De la música y los toros": masculinities and the representation of Carlos Vives in Ángeles Mastretta’s Arráncame la vida (1985)