Description
Modern Argentine Masculinities gathers essays that explore the social construction of gender from the nineteenth century to the present. Authors analyze literary and cinematic texts, as well as contemporary popular songs, and offer a wide-ranging picture of the performance of masculinity as it has evolved and adapted since the consolidation of Argentina as a modern nation. This captivating interdisciplinary volume sheds new light on the construction of heterosexual and queer Argentine masculinities.
Chapter
Chapter 1: Imagining Male Subjects: Representing Argentine Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Poetry Anthologies
Chapter 2: Maricas and Lunfardos in Buenos Aires: A Critique of the Latino-Mediterranean Model of Sexuality
Chapter 3: Masculinities, Modernity and the City in Roberto Arlt’s El juguete rabioso
Chapter 4: Afro-Argentines, Papás, Malevos and Patotas: Characterizing Masculinity on the Stages and in the Audiences of Buenos Aires, 1880–1920
Chapter 5: Pariahs in the Wilderness: Abject Masculinity in Horacio Quiroga
Chapter 6: The Military, Movies and Masculinity: Su mejor alumno and Pampa bárbara
Chapter 7: Masculinity, Performance and Peronist Nationalism in La traición de Rita Hayworth
Chapter 8: Marginalized Masculinity and Spaces of the Delinquent in Early New Argentine Cinema
Chapter 9: From Competing Masculinities to Male Bonding: Father–Son Relationships and Nation in Three Argentine Films
Chapter 10: Money to Burn, Burnt Money: Crime, Violence and Nonheteronormative Masculinities
Chapter 11: Middle-Class Masculinities in Juan José Campanella’s El hijo de la novia and Luna de Avellaneda
Chapter 12: Vulnerable Beings/Vulnerable Subjectivities: An Approach to Masculinities in the Narrative of Rodolfo Fogwill
Chapter 13: Melting Masculinities in Carlos Busqued’s Bajo este sol tremendo
Chapter 14: Masculinities at War: The Military versus the Neoliberal in Accounts of the Falklands/Malvinas War
Chapter 15: Basic Instincts, Violence and Sex-Driven Creatures: New Argentine Masculinity or Old ‘Macho’ Culture?
Chapter 16: Popular Music and Macho Representation: The Case of Cumbia Villera