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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453213603321

Autore

Girman Chris.

Titolo

Mucho macho : seduction, desire, and the homoerotic lives of Latin men / / Chris Girman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-56023-503-9

1-315-80160-4

1-317-76603-2

1-317-76604-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (670 p.)

Collana

Haworth gay & lesbian studies

Disciplina

306.76/62/098

Soggetti

Male homosexuality - Latin America

Machismo - Latin America

Masculinity - Latin America

Hispanic American gays

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; 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 MasculinitiesIntroduction; 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] RealIntroduction; 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

Sommario/riassunto

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 men?men like the author himself?regulate 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