Between Camp and Cursi
(January 2022)
Humor and Homosexuality in Contemporary Mexican Narrative Brandon P. Bisbey - Author
Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.
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...(Read More)
Continental Theory Buffalo
(December 2021)
Transatlantic Crossroads of a Critical Insurrection David R. Castillo - Editor Jean-Jacques Thomas - Editor Ewa Plonowska Ziarek - Editor
Mexico Unmanned
(December 2021)
The Cultural Politics of Masculinity in Mexican Cinema Samanta Ordóñez - Author
Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema.
Iconic images of machismo in Mexico’s classic cinema affirm the national film industry’s historical alignment with the patriarchal ideology intrinsic to the post-revolutionary state’s political culture. Filmmakers gradually turned away from the cultural nationalism of...(Read More)
Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.
The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they are treated (whether metaphorically or actually) as “persons,” or as objects wi...(Read More)
Sisterlocking Discoarse
(November 2021)
Race, Gender, and the Twenty-First-Century Academy Valerie Lee - Author
Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.
As one of the first countries to implement a neoliberal state apparatus, Mexico serves as a prime example of the effects of neoliberal structural economic reform on our sensibility. Irgmard Emmelhainz argues that, in addition to functioning as a form of politi...(Read More)
Democracy at the Ballpark
(October 2021)
Sport, Spectatorship, and Politics Thomas David Bunting - Author
From Pariah to Priority
(October 2021)
How LGBTI Rights Became a Pillar of American and Swedish Foreign Policy Elise Carlson Rainer - Author
Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies.
From Pariah to Priority gives a unique, insider perspective that explains the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies. From original data, case study analysis, and interviews with...(Read More)
