Mexico, from mestizo to multicultural : national identity and recent representations of the Conquest / Carrie C. Chorba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chorba, Carrie C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Mexican.

Nationalism--Mexico.

Nationalism.

Collective memory.

Mestizaje.

History.

Historiography.

Mexico.

Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540--Historiography.

Mestizaje--Mexico.

Collective memory--Mexico.

Physical Description:

xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This is the first interdisciplinary study of literary, cinematic, and graphic images of Mexican national identity from the Quincentennial commemoration in 19982 to the turn of the millennium. During this period, Mexico underwent an important shift from a mestizo identity to a multi-cultural society.

Contents:

Issues of nation, identity and history in Mexico

The trauma of Mexico's mestizo origins

Moving toward multiculturalism

The interminable conquest of Mexico

Concluding remarks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.

ISBN:

9780826515384

082651538X

9780826515391

0826515398

OCLC:

66392750