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Diego Rivera's mural Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central is a fascinating critique of high society and wealthy elites. It also offers a multitude of other stories that intersect in a web of historical memory. The massive mural, the histories it depicts, and even its physical journey after a devastating earthquake, hold answers to many of the questions readers might ask about Mexico. It also demonstrates how cultural artifacts explain the world around us and expose intersections and entanglements of specific power dynamics.
Modern Mexican Culture offers an enriching and deep investigation of key ideas and events in Mexico through an examination of art and history. Experts in Mexican cultural and literary studies cover the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre, the figure of the charro (cowboy), the construct of the postrevolutionary teacher, the class-correlated construct of gente decente, a borderlands response to the rhetoric of dominance, and the "democratic transition" in late twentieth-century Mexico. Each essay is a rich reading experience, providing teachers and students alike with a deep and well-contextualized sense of Mexican life, culture, and politics.
Each chapter provides a historical grounding of its topic, followed by a multifaceted analysis through various artistic representations that provide a more complex view of Mexico. Chapters are accompanied by lists of readily available murals, political cartoons, plays, pamphlets, posters, films, poems, novels, and other cultural products. Modern Mexican Culture demonstrates the power of art and artists to question, explain, and influence the world around us.
Contributors:
Rafael Acosta Morales
Jacqueline E. Bixler
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
Debra A. Castillo
Christopher Conway
David S. Dalton
Stuart A. Day
Emily Hind
Robert McKee Irwin
Ryan Long
Dana A. Meredith
MagalĂ Rabasa
Luis Alberto RodrĂguez CortĂ©s
Fernando Fabio SĂĄnchez
Ignacio M. SĂĄnchez Prado
Analisa Taylor
Oswaldo Zavala
Modern Mexican Culture offers an enriching and deep investigation of key ideas and events in Mexico through an examination of art and history. Experts in Mexican cultural and literary studies cover the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre, the figure of the charro (cowboy), the construct of the postrevolutionary teacher, the class-correlated construct of gente decente, a borderlands response to the rhetoric of dominance, and the "democratic transition" in late twentieth-century Mexico. Each essay is a rich reading experience, providing teachers and students alike with a deep and well-contextualized sense of Mexican life, culture, and politics.
Each chapter provides a historical grounding of its topic, followed by a multifaceted analysis through various artistic representations that provide a more complex view of Mexico. Chapters are accompanied by lists of readily available murals, political cartoons, plays, pamphlets, posters, films, poems, novels, and other cultural products. Modern Mexican Culture demonstrates the power of art and artists to question, explain, and influence the world around us.
Contributors:
Rafael Acosta Morales
Jacqueline E. Bixler
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
Debra A. Castillo
Christopher Conway
David S. Dalton
Stuart A. Day
Emily Hind
Robert McKee Irwin
Ryan Long
Dana A. Meredith
MagalĂ Rabasa
Luis Alberto RodrĂguez CortĂ©s
Fernando Fabio SĂĄnchez
Ignacio M. SĂĄnchez Prado
Analisa Taylor
Oswaldo Zavala
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: The Art of History
- 1. DREAMers: Youth and Migration: American DREAMers and Mexico
- 2. Milpa: Mesoamerican Resistance to Agricultural Imperialism
- 3. Charros: A Critical Introduction
- 4. Print: The Peopleâs Print Shop: Art, Politics, and the Taller de GrĂĄfica Popular
- 5. Teachers: Educating Cohesion: The Teacher as an Agent of the Postrevolutionary State
- 6. Murder: M for Murder: Mexico and Its Democratic State
- 7. Solitude
- 8. Democracy: The Idea of Democratic Transition
- 9. Classism: Gente Decente and Civil Rights: From Suffrage to Divorce and Privileges in Between
- 10. 1968: Archiving Amnesia: Tlatelolco and the Artfulness of Memory
- 11. War: Medusaâs Head: The Drug War Commandeers the People
- 12. Feminicide: Expanding Outrage: Representations of Gendered Violence and Feminicide in Mexico
- 13. El Norte: The North in Contemporary Mexican Narrative, Poetry, and Film: Relocating National Imaginaries Beyond the Mythology of Violence
- 14. Media: Media from Above/Media from Below: An Alternative Topography of the Mexican Mediascape
- 15. Net.art
- Contributors
- Index