Between Camp and Cursi
Humor and Homosexuality in Contemporary Mexican Narrative
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2022
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-8665-9 (ISBN)
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-8665-9 (ISBN)
Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.
Between Camp and Cursi examines the role of humor in portrayals of homosexuality in contemporary Mexican literature. Brandon P. Bisbey argues that humor based on camp and cursilería—a form of "bad taste" that expresses a sense of social marginalization—is used to represent key social conflicts and contradictions of modernity in Mexico. Combining perspectives from queer theory, humor theory, and Latin American cultural studies, Bisbey looks at a corpus of canonical and lesser-known texts that treat a range of topics relevant to contemporary discussions of gender, sexuality, race, and human rights in Mexico—including sex work, transvestitism, bisexuality, same-sex marriage, racism, classism, and homophobic and transphobic violence. Emphasizing the subversive possibilities of the comic, Between Camp and Cursi considers how this body of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature has challenged heteronormativity in Mexico and wrestled more broadly with both the colonial underpinnings of modernity and hegemonic Western gender norms.
Between Camp and Cursi examines the role of humor in portrayals of homosexuality in contemporary Mexican literature. Brandon P. Bisbey argues that humor based on camp and cursilería—a form of "bad taste" that expresses a sense of social marginalization—is used to represent key social conflicts and contradictions of modernity in Mexico. Combining perspectives from queer theory, humor theory, and Latin American cultural studies, Bisbey looks at a corpus of canonical and lesser-known texts that treat a range of topics relevant to contemporary discussions of gender, sexuality, race, and human rights in Mexico—including sex work, transvestitism, bisexuality, same-sex marriage, racism, classism, and homophobic and transphobic violence. Emphasizing the subversive possibilities of the comic, Between Camp and Cursi considers how this body of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature has challenged heteronormativity in Mexico and wrestled more broadly with both the colonial underpinnings of modernity and hegemonic Western gender norms.
Brandon P. Bisbey is Associate Professor of Spanish and Coordinator of Latina/o and Latin American Studies at Northeastern Illinois University.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Other Mexican Revolution: Camp and Cursilería in the Queer Self-Construction of Salvador Novo
2. Homosexuales de corazón: Humor, Homophobia, and How to be a Man at the End of the 20th Century
3. Dressing the Part: Literary Portrayals of Travestis, Locas, Vestidas, and Jotas
4. Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Bisexual Bildungsromane from Dismodern Mexico
5. Machorra Camp and Lesbian Cursilería: Sexuality, Gender, and Humor in Narratives by and about Queer Women
Conclusions
Notes
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.01.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series, Genders in the Global South |
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 4 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-8665-0 / 1438486650 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-8665-9 / 9781438486659 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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