Epistemologies of the Baño: Bath Space, Affective Occupation, and Public Sex(ualities) in Contemporary Queer Mexican Narrative

Дата публикации: 20-07-2026 00:00:00

Despite being one of the recurrent spaces in contemporary Queer Mexican narrative, little scholarly attention has been given to baños. Employing a critical approach to bath space, this dissertation explores the representations of bathrooms and bathhouses and their potential not only in their narrative function but also as opportunities for critical reflections on larger dynamics of power related to space, gender, sexuality and the control of bodies. I begin by making an argument for Critical Baño Studies, an analytical framework for understanding bath space narratives. In chapter one, I argue for a rereading of Ana Clavel’s novel Cuerpo náufrago with an acute focus on the protagonist’s overnight transition into a man, her new obsession with urinals, and an understudied portion of the novel that portrays masculine sociality in the bathhouse. In chapter two, I bring together a score of pre- and post-2000s films under the genre of “Bathhouse Film.” With a new approach to the iconic...

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