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Mucho Macho - Chris Girman

Mucho Macho

Seduction, Desire, and the Homoerotic Lives of Latin Men

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
432 Seiten
2004
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-56023-502-6 (ISBN)
CHF 235,65 inkl. MwSt
Quality researchuniquely enhanced by the author’s personal experience!

In one of the first books to examine machismo from the perspective of Latin American and Latino men, Chris Girman relies on a compelling combination of ethnographic research and personal experience to explain how macho menmen like the author himselfregulate and sustain same-sex erotic encounters. Girman incorporates his own sexual experiences with a variety of Latin men into the book, infusing his writing with the unique perspective and vivid description that can only be related by someone who has lived the research he writes about.

While most of the literature on Latin American male same-sex desire ignores the significance of the male body in its investigation, this book shows why it is essential to focus on the macho male body and re-evaluates so-called machismo to forge a more nuanced description of Latin American masculinity. Girman incorporates his own sexual experiences with a variety of Latin American men into the book, infusing his writing with the unique perspective and vivid descriptions that can only be related by someone who has lived the research he writes about.

With this book, you’ll become familiar with various kinds of Latin-American homosexual behavior. Here’s a glimpse at what you’ll find inside:



Machismo, Practice Theorists, and Macho Performance summarizes previous research on Latin American male [homo]sexuality and defines the author’s concept of machismo and Latin American masculinity.


Head, Hands, Balls, and Ass shows why focusing on the body as living matter, rather than metaphor (as is done in so many other books on sexuality), is the ideal point of entry into the study of Latin American male [homo]sexuality and masculinity. This chapter focuses on specific regions of the macho bodyhead, hands, balls, and assto explain how machismo actually promotes, rather than denies, sexual encounters between men. It also shows the importance of the Latin American family as a variable that structures the manner and frequency in which [homo]sexual encounters occur.


The Dominican Tíguere and Hegemonic Masculinities takes a specific look at a very peculiar form of hegemonic masculinityrelying on cunning more than strength to come out on topthat is indigenous to the Dominican Republic. This chapter also tells the stories of five of the author’s sexual encounters in that nation and discusses the tiguere style of masculine performance.


Desire in a Costa Rican Prison analyzes the ways in which desire, power, and pleasure are constituted in the Latin American prison environment.


Historical Representations of Same-Sex Desire examines two short storiesEl Matadero (Esteban Echeverria) and Comienza el Desfile (Reinaldo Arenas), which highlight male eroticism as important concepts within discourses on national identity. Both stories conceptualize same-sex desire within specific historical moments and demonstrate how male [homo]sexuality emerges and represents itself not in contrast to the dominant discourse, but within that discourse itself.


Familiar, Familial Voices: Latino Men Speak Out documents the voices of gay-identified Latino men living in Central Texasmen who have come to love other Latin, Black, and Anglo men in the context of very full lives. These men reveal their conceptions of identity, race, performance, resistance, family, pleasure, desire, masculinity, silence, and place.


Performing Matter[s]-Masculinity, the Male Body, and the Evocation of the [non]real defies the notion that written representations can capture the lived realities of

Chris Girman

Foreword (Robert A. Fernea)

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Is Latin America a Coherent Entity?

Marking My Position

Orientation

Some Caveats

Chapter 1. Machismo and Macho Performance

Male [Homo]Sexual Encounters in Latin America

Deconstructing Machismo

Uniting System and Self: From Habitus to Performance

Queer Performativity

Conclusion

Chapter 2. Head, Hands, Balls, and Ass

From a Theory of the Body to the Body As Theory

The Macho Body

Structural and Psychological Variables

Conclusion

Chapter 3. The Dominican Tíguere and Hegemonic Masculinities

Introduction

El Tíguere

Tígueres, Conejos, y Patos [Tigers, Rabbits, and Ducks]: Dominican Tíguere Sexuality

The Kid, the Cop, the Thief, and My Lover: Five Stories

Conclusion

Chapter 4. Desire in a Costa Rican Prison

Introduction

Junior

Hegemonic Masculinity in San Sabastián

Phallocentrism and Desire

Pleasure

Desire As Identification

Cacherismo and Resistance/Alternative Discourses

Conclusion

Chapter 5. Historical Representations of Same-Sex Desire in Esteban Echeverría’s El Matadero and Reinaldo Arenas’s Comienza el Desfile

Introduction

Los Hermanos Sodomitas: Masculinity and [Homo]eroticism in Echeverría’s El Matadero

La Busqueda del Huerfano: Disenchantment and [Homo]eroticism in Arenas’s Comienza el Desfile

A Carnivalesque Critique

Chapter 6. Familiar, Familial Voices: Latino Men Speak Out

Introduction

Forming the Chicano Other

Speaking of Family

Masculine Assumption[s]

Conclusion

Chapter 7. Performing Matter[s]: Masculinities, the Male Body, and the Evocation of the [Not] Real

Introduction

Performative Writing

The Male Body

Emergent Ethnography and the Emergence of the Body

Toward a Performative Ethnography

Desde Santo Domingo hasta San Antonio: Putting My Own Body on the Line

Conclusion

The Final Act: Why It All Matters

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.10.2004
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 216 mm
Gewicht 960 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-56023-502-0 / 1560235020
ISBN-13 978-1-56023-502-6 / 9781560235026
Zustand Neuware
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