Description: Explores twentieth-century Mexican counterculture through the lens of pleasure, body autonomy, and music and film undergrounds.
Brief description: Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.
Review Quotes:
"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