
- 436 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- PART I Transmedial re-mediations
- PART II Bending genre
- PART III Re-constructing silver screen imaginaries
- PART IV Putting the feminist and queer pop in the pictorial arts
- PART V Bend it like Pelé
- PART VI Alt-hemispheric sound and body performatics
- PART VII Staging nuevo hemispheric identities
- Index