THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO GENDER, SEX AND LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE
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 Amricas.
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 Amricas, 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, lotera card games, news, web, and digital media.
Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, University Distinguished Scholar, and University Distinguished Teacher at The Ohio State University, USA. He is an award-winning author, co-author, and editor of over thirty books. He is editor and co-editor of eight academic press book series. He has been honored with the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Educations Outstanding Latino/a Faculty in Higher Education Award and inducted into the Academy of Teaching.
A sharp observer and scholarly commentator, Aldama gives sex and gender a new twist. He gathers expert analysts who put sex and gender into contemporary but unfamiliar contexts of popular culture. They take us into national (Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Japanese Peru, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Cuba), pre-national (Amerindian), and hemispheric transnational spaces (the U.S. Mexico border, BudapestBrazil, JapanPeru, CubaU.S.) of cultural production. An absolutely essential resource for all those interested in the dynamic and varied ways that of sex and gender inform the shaping of pop culture in the Amricas
Marta E. Snchez, author of Shakin Up Race and Gender,
Professor of Chicano, US Latino, and Latin American Literature,
Arizona State University, USA
Aldamas Companion brings together under-explored intersectional identities and cultural riches that provide the keys to understand the intricacies of Latin American culture. The essays shed light on how gender, sexuality, race, and class traverse all facets of our lives. This is a must-have for all Latin American Studies programs
Consuelo Martinez Reyes, Lecturer in Spanish Studies,
Australian National University, Australia
More than ever, pop culture permeates every nook and cranny of our increasingly globalized world. It is unavoidable. Through richly varied theoretical approaches and methodologies, covering a broad range of topics from comics to futebol, Aldamas Companion reframes pop culture as a central field of study for understanding the complexities of Latin America
Eli Lee Carter, author of Reimagining Brazilian Television,
Assistant Professor of Portuguese,
University of Virginia, USA
In Latin America, as elsewhere, popular culture can enforce systems and structures of oppression as well as provide a space for resistance to them. The redoubtable, versatile Aldama is the perfect impresario for these studies into how various forms of pop throughout the Hispanophonic Western hemisphere shape and are shaped by gender and sexuality
Steven G. Kellman, author of The Translingual Imagination,
Professor of Comparative Literature,
University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO GENDER, SEX AND LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
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Names: Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969- editor.
Title: The Routledge companion to gender, sex and Latin American culture / edited by Frederick Luis Aldama.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017060230 | ISBN 9781138894952 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315179728 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Popular cultureLatin America. | Mass media and cultureLatin America. | SexLatin America. | Sex roleLatin America. | Latin AmericaCivilization.
Classification: LCC F1408.3 .R6755 2018 | DDC 980dc23
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ISBN: 978-1-138-89495-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-17972-8 (ebk)
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CONTENTS
Stacey Alex is a Latin American Cultural and Literary Studies and Latina/o Studies doctoral student at The Ohio State University. With a focus on the Latina/o Midwest, her work analyzes narratives of undocumented Latina/o experiences and their potential to decolonize multicultural approaches that include Latina/o literature in apolitical and celebratory ways.
J. Andrew Brown is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of Test Tube Envy: Science and Power in Argentine Narrative and Cyborgs in Latin America . He has written extensively on the intersections of popular culture, science fiction, and underground music in Latin America. He is currently finishing a project on the aesthetics of remix, mashups, and sampling in contemporary Latin American narrative.
Doug Bush is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He has published on Mexican and Latinx Literature and culture. He is author of Capturing Mariposas: Reading Cultural Schema in an Emerging Genre (2019).
