List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Mexican Origins
2. Urbanization and Its Discontents in El Man, el superhéroe nacional
3. Allegories of Trauma and Transition in Mirageman
4. The Superhero and a Death Foretold: Chinche Man in San Pedro Sula
5. YouTube, Parody, and Neoliberal Critique in Capitán Centroamérica
Post Data: "Un pibe . . . un boludo más . . . nos vino a salvar"
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Vinodh Venkatesh is Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech and author of New Maricón Cinema: Outing Latin American Film and The Body as Capital: Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction.