Explores twentieth-century Mexican counterculture through the lens of pleasure, body autonomy, and music and film undergrounds.
Consuming Citizens offers a fresh conception of twentieth-century Mexican cultural production by critically tracing the underside of mestizo modernity. Examining a diverse corpus that includes poetry, song, avant-garde film, and more from the 1920s to '80s, the volume uses queer, feminist, and psychedelic theories to understand counterculture-and especially different acts of consumption-as a way of creating culture and alternative social structures. Practices of consuming media, sex, and drugs become means of generating community among subjects who have been marginalized by the nominally inclusive mestizo nation. Consuming Citizens thus rethinks nationalism, citizenship, and society in relation to, and as creations of, countercultural bodies.
By:
Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 612g
ISBN: 9798855802306
Series: SUNY series, Genders in the Global South
Pages: 354
Publication Date: 01 May 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgments Introduction: What Are Countercultural Bodies and Why Do They/We Matter? 1. Pelonas, pintoras y periodistas: México as a Metropolis of Women 2. Neobaroque Bodies and Same-Sex Desires: Anal Politics of Salvador Novo and Abigael Bohórquez 3. Bodies of Knowledge, Psychedelic Journeying, and the Writing of Space: The Liberatory Countercultures of Margarita Dalton and Parménides García Saldaña 4. Counterculture Commodified and Sexual Liberation: Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy in Fernando del Paso’s Palinuro de México and the Rebellious Female Protagonists of Sergio García Michel’s Super 8 Milimeter Films Coda. The Familiar Magicians of Alejandro Jodorowsky; Or, How to Mobilize Affectual Assemblages against the Neoliberalization of Subjectivity Notes Works Cited Index
Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.
Reviews for Consuming Citizens: Countercultural Bodies in Twentieth-Century Mexico
""Consuming Citizens explores the underbelly of mestizo ideology in Mexico, from the 1920s to the late 1980s, when the discourse of neoliberalism solidified. Drawing from a remarkable breadth of primary sources, the book brings together a novel mix of literary and cultural figures under the conceptual umbrella of 'countercultural bodies'—including Cube Bonifant, Nahui Olin, Salvador Novo, Abigael Bohorquez, Margarita Dalton, Parménidez García Saldaña, Fernando del Paso, and Sergio García Michel. Foregrounding pleasure rather than identity as a basis of citizenship, Aguirre shows how countercultural bodies creatively intervene in their environments and how pleasure can serve as an unexpectedly powerful form of dissent."" — Viviane Mahieux, author of Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America: The Shared Intimacy of Everyday Life
