| Description |
1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction, Ungoverned specificities / Carl Good -- Mexican art on display / Olivier Debroise -- Mathias Goeritz : emotional architecture and creating a Mexican national art / Juan Bruce-Novoa -- Corporeal identities in Mexican art : modern and postmodern strategies / Karen Cordero Reiman -- Elena Poniatowska's Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela : a re-vision of her story / Susan C. Schaffer -- "Un octubre manchado se detiene" : memory and testimony in the poetry of David Huerta / Jacobo Sefamí -- Aesthetic criteria and the literary market in Mexico : the changing shape of quality, 1982-1994 / Danny J. Anderson -- Un hogar insólito : Elena Garro and Mexican literary culture / Rebecca E. Biron -- René Derouin : dialogues with Mexico / Montserrat Galí Boadella -- Unhomely feminine : Rosina Conde / Debra A. Castillo -- Postmodern hybrid : do aliens dream of alien sheep? / Rolando Romero |
| Summary |
What is the effect of a "nation"? In this age of globalization, is it dead, dying, or only dormant? The essays in this groundbreaking volume use the arts in Mexico to move beyond the national and the global to look at the activity of a community continually re-creating itself within and beyond its own borders. Mexico is a particularly apt focus, partly because of the vitality of its culture, partly because of its changing political identity, and partly because of the impact of borders and borderlessness on its national character. The ten essays collected here look at a wide range of aesthetic productions -- especially literature and the visual arts -- that give context to how art and society interact. Steering a careful course between the nostalgia of nationalism and the insensitivity of globalism, these essays examine modernism and postmodernism in the Mexican setting. Individually, they explore the incorporation of historical icons, of vanguardism, and of international influence. From Diego Rivera to Elena Garro, from the Tlateloco massacre to the Chiapas rebellion, from mass-market fiction to the film Aliens, the contributors view the many sides of Mexican life as relevant to the creation of a constantly shifting national culture. Taken together, the essays look both backward and forward at the evolving effect of the Mexican nation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Arts, Mexican -- 20th century
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National characteristics in art.
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Art and society -- Mexico
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ART -- Reference.
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ART -- Performance.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Drama.
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Art and society
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Arts, Mexican
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National characteristics in art
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Mexico
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Good, Carl, 1965-
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Waldron, John V., 1960-
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| ISBN |
9781439901762 |
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1439901767 |
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9781566398664 |
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1566398665 |
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