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By Hector Dominguez-Ruvalcaba

This e-book appears at representations of the male physique, sexuality, and tool in Mexican literature and the arts. The research comprises literature, visible paintings, and cinema made from the 1870s to the current, concentrating on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary period, and the decadence of the innovative country and the emergence of the neo-liberal order within the Eighties to the present. 

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The virile artists blame the effeminacy that is associated with the practicing of empty, false, and superficial ornamental art. In the same way, Novo blames Rivera for being reiterative in his hyperbolic and simplistic aesthetic of political pamphlets. As we observed in a previous work (Domínguez 126–129), Salvador Novo’s satires are mostly dedicated to the deconstruction of the strategies of authentication of the virile male in revolutionary art. Heroes perform history with their clothing and gestures of the puppets (Novo 109).

Half-dressed in his intimate space, he stands in slippers on a bare floor in front of a dilapidated, ordinary wall. He is an earthy transvestite stripped of the artifice we observed in Posada, Rivera, Rodríguez Lozano, el Corcito, and Quezada. Nevertheless, he is dressed with the nationalist adornment, the charro hat that covers him. All his attire seems appropriate for a transvestite, except for the hat. This added element takes the transvestite beyond his domestic comfort to pose in a stance similar to those in traditional calendar illustrations by Helguera.

At an (in)opportune moment, Fernando tries to kiss her, but Miss Eva interrupts his kiss to reveal “her” masculine identity. Fernando feels so ashamed that he never allows himself to be seen in public again. 26 Mexican Representations of Masculinity The relationship between the foreigners and the nationals is determined by the semiotics of dress. European and American identities are performed through the artificiality of appearance. For Angel Rama, one aspect of democratization in the modernista era is access to utilitarian goods (19–20).

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