Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Body as Capital -- Part I. New Historical Masculinities -- 1. Commoditizing the Male Body in Margarita, está linda la mar -- 2. Marketing Masculinities in Nadie me verá llorar -- 4. Queer(ing) Masculinities as the Dictator Falls -- 3. Political Masculinities in La fiesta del Chivo -- Part II. Lyrical Readings and the Deterritorialization of Masculinities -- 5. Defining the Literary OST -- 6. Lyrical Epistemologies and Masculine Desire -- 7. Homosocial Dynamics and the Spatiality of Seduction -- 8. Franz Galich's Managua, Rock City -- Part III. Novel and Transnational Masculinities -- 9. Glocalized Masculinities of the Barrio Alto -- 10. Materializing the Penis -- 11. Challenging Novel Masculinities -- Conclusion: Of Tropes and Men -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.