Consuming Citizens
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- ISBN 9798855802290
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Nov 2025
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.
