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Identifier	Thesis 1909
Author	Rodriguez, Cindy L., 1971-
Title	Masculinities in contemporary Latino fiction
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2007
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	This thesis focuses on how the male-male relationships in contemporary Latino novels by Piri Thomas, Abraham Rodriguez, Jr., Junot Díaz, Arturo Islas, and John Rechy help or hurt the protagonists’ developing masculinity and overall sense of self. The father-son relationship is highlighted in each novel, as this is the foremost male-male relationship experienced and can set the tone for the son’s self-discovery. The male-male relationships analyzed, using literary, social, cultural, and psychological sources, also prove that the novels’ protagonists struggle with the older, traditional definitions of Latino masculinity that expect men to be aggressive, stoic, and invulnerable to others. The protagonists push the boundaries of the “old” definitions of Latino masculinity by exhibiting an array of emotions and pursuing more complex, intimate relationships with men that include homosexual desire and sex. At times, the protagonists prove Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s theory of “obligatory heterosexuality,” but ultimately the novels prove that Latino masculinity is more complex than the “old” definitions that pit man against woman and aggression against passivity. Chapter One, “Rodriguez, Díaz, and Homosocial Bonding,” analyzes the male relationships in Drown by Junot Díaz and Abraham Rodriguez Jr.’s The Boy Without a Flag and Spidertown. The second chapter, “Thomas and Díaz Blur the Lines Between Homosocial and Homosexual,” analyzes the male relationships and highlights the scenes of homosexual sex and/or desire in Diaz’s Drown and Thomas’s novels, Down These Mean Streets, Seven Long Times, and Savior, Savior Hold My Hand. Chapter 3, “Islas, Rechy, and the Homosexual Latino,” analyzes homosexual relationships and the pursuit of self-identity in Arturo Islas’s novels, The Rain God and Migrant Souls, and John Rechy’s City of Night.
Subject	American literature -- Hispanic American authors Masculinity
Department	Department of English
Advisor	Sugg, Katherine
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713734341
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