Unlearning el M(U)Chismo Cubano: How Grotesque Imagery Reveals the Paradoxes of Post-Revolution Masculinities in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez’s El rey de la Habana and Tomás Alea’s Fresa y chocolate
Rebecca Barnes As the title indicates with the word mucho, machismo is associated with exaggerated masculinity: a lot of bravado and stoicism. Psychoanalytically, machismo is interpreted as “a reaction to deep-seated fears of inadequacy and latent homosexuality,” which results in the exaggeration of physical and personality traits traditionally thought to be masculine (Basham 127). In …