Lo que comparte el positivismo con el modernismo mexicano: El hermafroditismo, la bestialidad y la necrofilia

Abstract

This article contests the generally accepted notion, as articulated by Cathy Jrade, that Latin American modernism and positivism treated sexual questions from opposing perspectives, the latter assuming a stance of social control, the former rebelling against it. A careful reading of Mexican positivist criminologist Carlos Roumagnac’s works finds several interesting parallels with Mexican modernist prose texts, most particularly in their sensationalistic treatment of what they present as extreme sexual transgression.