Project description
Understanding marimacho cultural emergence in Latin America
In the early 20th century, a new form of gender expression known as ‘marimacho’ emerged in Latin American literature, science and visual culture. The term marimacho encompasses diverse identities, including a modern manifestation of non-binary gender, a transmasculine identification or a lesbian identity. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the Trans Modernismo project investigates the emergence of the marimacho, seeking to comprehend the gender and sexuality politics of the region during the modernising era (the 1880s to 1930s), predating the rise of LGBTQ activism. The research delves into the aesthetic construction of this gender-dissident figure through various cultural sources, such as novels, plays, films, medical studies, poems and newspapers.
Objective
Birth of the Marimacho: Modernismos Trans* Cultural Productions in Latin America analyzes the emergence of a new gender expression in early-twentieth-century Latin American literature, science, and visual culture: the marimacho. In the Hispanic tradition, marimacho is the umbrella notion that may refer to a sexist slur as much as a modern form of non-binary gender, a transmasculine identification, or a lesbian identity. This project examines the aesthetic construction of this hybrid, counter-cultural, and gender-dissident figure in an extensive cultural repertoire that includes novels, plays, films, leaflets, medical studies, prison and mental hospital records, poems, and newspaper and tabloid articles. I seek to increase the understanding of the regions politics of gender and sexuality during the modernizing era (1880s-1930s), that is, before the solidification of LGBTQ activism, pride literature, and minority social movements of the Global 1960s. In response to the new gender dynamics led by cosmopolitan networks of first-wave feminism, the keepers of gender normativity created the marimacho as a monstrous version of conventional masculinity. The main objective of this research is to investigate why a broad range of cultural materials named queer women, non-binary individuals, and trans* men as marimachos, as gender hackers that put at stake the futures of heteronormativity, reproduction, and family life.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinator
50931 Koln
Germany