Questioning Masculinity in Élmer Mendoza’s El amante de Janis Joplin
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https://doi.org/10.19137/anclajes-2018-2237Keywords:
Élmer Mendoza, Mexican Literature, Gender Studies, 20th Century, MéxicoAbstract
The novel analyzed in the present work, El amante de Janis Joplin (2001) by
Elmer Mendoza, recreates two simultaneous phenomena of recent Mexican history: the
“dirty war” and the rise of drug trafficking. However, the sexual policies contained in
the text are specific to the moment of enunciation, since they transgress the normative
imperatives of both male and female heterosexuality, and in the first case they place the
characters in a doubtful and infamous position related to homosexuality.
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