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Overview"Between Camp and Cursi examines the role of humor in portrayals of homosexuality in contemporary Mexican literature. Brandon P. Bisbey argues that humor based on camp and cursilería—a form of ""bad taste"" that expresses a sense of social marginalization—is used to represent key social conflicts and contradictions of modernity in Mexico. Combining perspectives from queer theory, humor theory, and Latin American cultural studies, Bisbey looks at a corpus of canonical and lesser-known texts that treat a range of topics relevant to contemporary discussions of gender, sexuality, race, and human rights in Mexico—including sex work, transvestitism, bisexuality, same-sex marriage, racism, classism, and homophobic and transphobic violence. Emphasizing the subversive possibilities of the comic, Between Camp and Cursi considers how this body of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature has challenged heteronormativity in Mexico and wrestled more broadly with both the colonial underpinnings of modernity and hegemonic Western gender norms." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Brandon P. BisbeyPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438486666ISBN 10: 1438486669 Pages: 252 Publication Date: 02 July 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Other Mexican Revolution: Camp and Cursilería in the Queer Self-Construction of Salvador Novo 2. Homosexuales de corazón: Humor, Homophobia, and How to be a Man at the End of the 20th Century 3. Dressing the Part: Literary Portrayals of Travestis, Locas, Vestidas, and Jotas 4. Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Bisexual Bildungsromane from Dismodern Mexico 5. Machorra Camp and Lesbian Cursilería: Sexuality, Gender, and Humor in Narratives by and about Queer Women Conclusions Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsBetween Camp and Cursi explores an area of study-humor-that demands further research in contemporary Mexican literature. Bisbey's analysis blends together an eclectic yet coherent mix of texts and is sure to be attractive to a wide variety of readers in Mexican literary and cultural studies, Latin American studies, and gender and sexuality studies. - Vinodh Venkatesh, author of Capitan Latinoamerica: Superheroes in Cinema, Television, and Web Series Author InformationBrandon P. Bisbey is Associate Professor of Spanish and Coordinator of Latina/o and Latin American Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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