Men’s literature. Body mural Maras

Lace canvases woven in skin

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51378/realidad.v1i162.7727

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Machismo, Masculinity, Pornography, Tattooing

Abstract

In this paper I read Mara’s tattoos as murals, or lace paintings carved into the skin. I use three  conceptual  proposals: 1) Laurent Berlant’s ‘public intimacy’; 2)  Angela Carters’s ‘pornography’; and 3) Clyde  Barrow’  ‘lumpenproletariat.’ My claim is that a concept used by feminist theorists, that of ‘women’s literature,’ turned  upside down can be read as ‘men’s literature’ and, how,  concepts stored in the historical warehouse and in disuse  could, turned inside out, galvanize the reading or current  circumstances. The same holds true for the concept of  moral or metaphysical pornography read as men’s  literature and of the  lumpenproletariat as a group  expression at the service of right and left politics.

Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 162, 2023: 7-15.

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Author Biography

, Ohio State University

Profesora emérita de Humanidades en The Ohio State University. Algunas de sus publicaciones son las siguientes: Modalidades de memoria y archivos afectivos: Cine de mujeres en Centroamérica (CALAS, 2020). La prosa de la contra-insurgencia. ‘Lo político’ durante la restauración neoliberal en Nicaragua (Contracorriente, 2019); Gender Violence in Failed and Democratic States. Besieging Perverse Masculinities (Palgrave, 2016); Hombres de empresa, saber y poder en Centroamérica: Identidades regionales/Modernidades periféricas: (Managua: IHNCA, 2011).

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Published

2023-07-31

How to Cite

Ileana. (2023). Men’s literature. Body mural Maras: Lace canvases woven in skin. Realidad: Revista De Ciencias Sociales Y Humanidades, (162), 7–15. https://doi.org/10.51378/realidad.v1i162.7727

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No. 162 (2023)

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Essays

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