The Aztec palimpsest : Mexico in the modern imagination / Daniel Cooper Alarcón.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper Alarcón, Daniel, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Government policy.

Mexico--Foreign public opinion.

Mexico.

Mexico--Description and travel.

Mexico--In literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.

American literature--Mexican American authors.

Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.

Mexican Americans.

Tourism--Government policy--Mexico.

Tourism.

Publicity.

Physical Description:

xx, 224 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1997]

Summary:

Shows how the idea of "Mexicanness" is the product of competing yet interwoven discourses -- Chicano rhetoric, English-language literature about Mexico, and Mexican tourist propaganda -- that have produced sometimes contradictory descriptions.

Contents:

Toward a new understanding of Aztlán and Chicano cultural identity

Mexico as infernal paradise

"Where do you get your ideas about Mexico?"

If a tree falls ... tourism and Mexicanness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-218) and index.

ISBN:

0816516553

0816516561

OCLC:

35714635