Modernity with Limits

The Narrative Construction of Intimate Relationships, Sex and Social Change in Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez's Juventud en Éxtasis

Bibliographic Data

ID2392966
AuthorsDaniel Nehring (0000-0002-5346-6301, University of Essex, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume12
Issue1
Pages33-59
Publication date2009-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSexualities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1363-4607 • E-ISSN: 1461-7382
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1363460708099112
OpenAlexW2046137657
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited22

In this article, I explore the narrative construction of sexualities and intimate relationships in the self-help novel Youth in Sexual Ecstasy by Mexican writer Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez. Self-help texts may be understood as being indicative of the reconstitution of the cultural logics of intimate life in relation to processes of modernization and globalization. The popular work of Cuauhtémoc Sánchez in particular points to respective cultural transformations and tensions emerging in Latin American contexts. The text is firmly embedded in the political project of reasserting a hegemonic construction of Mexican sexual identity based on the nation's patriarchal Christian heritage in the face of social change and tendencies towards a pluralization of sexual understandings and practices

Aesthetics · Art · Face (sociological concept · Hegemony · Human sexuality · Identity (music · Latin Americans · Literature · Modernity · Modernization theory · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American Literature Studies

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