Through economic liberalization and the untethering of labour and production markets, masculinity as hegemon has entered a crisis stage. Renegotiated labour and familial orders have triggered a widespread cultural renegotiation of how masculinity operates and is represented. This holds especially true in Latin America. Addressing this, Vinodh Venkatesh uses contemporary Latin American literature to examine how masculinity is constructed and conceived.

Vinodh Venkatesh is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech. He has published articles and book chapters on gender, subjectivity, and the urban space in contemporary Spanish and Latin American cinema and narrative.