Consuming Citizens

<p><b>Explores twentieth-century Mexican counterculture through the lens of pleasure body autonomy and music and film undergrounds.</b></p><p><i>Consuming Citizens</i> 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 different acts of consumption-as a way of creating culture and alternative social structures. Practices of consuming media sex and drugs become means of generating community among subjects who have been marginalized by the nominally inclusive mestizo nation. <i>Consuming Citizens</i> thus rethinks nationalism citizenship and society in relation to and as creations of countercultural bodies.</p>