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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.
"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
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