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Description:Each contribution to this book discusses key issues arising from the portrayal of men and the formation of masculine identities in a range of representative and landmark texts, fictional and non-fictional, drawn from different historical periods and from various countries in the Hispanophone Americas.There is an emphasis on the ways in which writers from Argentina (Manuel Puig), Chile (the Spaniard Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga and the Chilean Nicolas Palacios), Mexico (Gustavo Sainz and Angeles Mastretta) and the Hispanic USA (Jennifer Harbury and Francisco Goldman) have explored the themes of love, friendship and trust and their transformative power for gender relations in situations and contexts where deception, exploitation and oppression are often disturbingly present. There is also a discussion of the applications, insights and limitations of different theoretical frameworks and concepts relevant to the task of producing gendered readings, including Connell s world gender order and hegemonic masculinity, as well as the cult of virility as characterised by Still and Worton, Chela Sandoval s decolonial love and methodology of the oppressed and Beasley-Murray s posthegemony .This book was originally published as a special issue of "Iberian and Latin American Studies. ""We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Men, Power and Liberation: Readings of Masculinities in Spanish American Literatures. To get started finding Men, Power and Liberation: Readings of Masculinities in Spanish American Literatures, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Each contribution to this book discusses key issues arising from the portrayal of men and the formation of masculine identities in a range of representative and landmark texts, fictional and non-fictional, drawn from different historical periods and from various countries in the Hispanophone Americas.There is an emphasis on the ways in which writers from Argentina (Manuel Puig), Chile (the Spaniard Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga and the Chilean Nicolas Palacios), Mexico (Gustavo Sainz and Angeles Mastretta) and the Hispanic USA (Jennifer Harbury and Francisco Goldman) have explored the themes of love, friendship and trust and their transformative power for gender relations in situations and contexts where deception, exploitation and oppression are often disturbingly present. There is also a discussion of the applications, insights and limitations of different theoretical frameworks and concepts relevant to the task of producing gendered readings, including Connell s world gender order and hegemonic masculinity, as well as the cult of virility as characterised by Still and Worton, Chela Sandoval s decolonial love and methodology of the oppressed and Beasley-Murray s posthegemony .This book was originally published as a special issue of "Iberian and Latin American Studies. ""We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Men, Power and Liberation: Readings of Masculinities in Spanish American Literatures. To get started finding Men, Power and Liberation: Readings of Masculinities in Spanish American Literatures, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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