Consuming Citizens: Countercultural Bodies in Twentieth-Century Mexico

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 differen...