ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture is the first comprehensive volume to explore the intersections between gender, sexuality, and the creation, consumption, and interpretation of popular culture in the Américas.
The chapters seek to enrich our understanding of the role of pop culture in the everyday lives of its creators and consumers, primarily in the 20th and 21st centuries. They reveal how popular culture expresses the historical, social, cultural, and political commonalities that have shaped the lives of peoples that make up the Américas, and also highlight how pop culture can conform to and solidify existing social hierarchies, whilst on other occasions contest and resist the status quo. Front and center in this collection are issues of gender and sexuality, making visible the ways in which subjects who inhabit intersectional identities (sex, gender, race, class) are "othered", as well as demonstrating how these same subjects can, and do, use pop-cultural phenomena in self-affirmative and progressively transformative ways. Topics covered in this volume include TV, film, pop and performance art, hip-hop, dance, slam poetry, gender-fluid religious ritual, theater, stand-up comedy, graffiti, videogames, photography, graphic arts, sports spectacles, comic books, sci-fi and other genre novels, lotería card games, news, web, and digital media.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction
part |84 pages
Transmedial re-mediations
chapter |12 pages
Diasporic intersectionality
chapter |8 pages
Drawing up a ‘post’-Latin America
chapter |10 pages
Tito Guízar on Radio Row
part |65 pages
Bending genre
chapter |13 pages
Villain or victim?
part |75 pages
Re-constructing silver screen imaginaries
chapter |8 pages
Neoliberal pigmentocracies
chapter |9 pages
El roc ha muerto, viva el roc
chapter |10 pages
Starring Mexico
part |41 pages
Putting the feminist and queer pop in the pictorial arts
chapter |11 pages
The photography of Thomaz Farkas and the Estádo de Pacaembu
part |47 pages
Bend it like Pelé
chapter |13 pages
Hard punches, vulnerable bodies
part |42 pages
Alt-hemispheric sound and body performatics
chapter |12 pages
Dance as medicine
part |55 pages
Staging nuevo hemispheric identities