Consuming Citizens: Countercultural Bodies in Twentieth-Century Mexico

di Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou (Autore)

State University of New York Press, 2025

Explores twentieth-century Mexican counterculture through the lens of pleasure, body autonomy, and music and film undergrounds. Consuming Citizens offers a fresh conception of twentieth-century Mexican cultural production by critically tracing the underside of mestizo modernity. Examining a diverse corpus that includes poetry, song, avant-garde film, and more from the 1920s to '80s, the volume uses queer, feminist, and psychedelic theories to understand counterculture-and especially different acts of consumption-as a way of creating culture and alternative social structures. Practices of consuming media, sex, and drugs become means of generating community among subjects who have been marginalized by the nominally inclusive mestizo nation. Consuming Citizens thus rethinks nationalism, citizenship, and society in relation to, and as creations of, countercultural bodies.

• Autore: Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Collana: SUNY series, Genders in the Global South
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 354 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 494 gr.
• EAN: 9798855802290

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