Ghosts of the revolution in Mexican literature and visual culture : revisitations in modern and contemporary creative media / Erica Segre (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Segre, Erica, editor.

Series:

Iberian and Latin American studies (Peter Lang Publishing)

Iberian and Latin American studies: the arts, literature and identity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Mexican.

History.

Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920--Influence.

Mexico.

Mexican literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Mexican literature.

Arts, Mexican--20th century--History and criticism.

Mexico--In literature.

Mexico--In art.

Mexico--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Mexico--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

Art.

Physical Description:

xvi, 316 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Peter Lang, [2013]

Summary:

The official centenary commemorating the Mexican Revolution of 1910 provided scholars with an opportunity to considered memorialization and its legacies and 'afterimages' in the twentieth century through to the present time. This collection of new essays, commissioned from experts based in Mexico, Europe and the United States, plays on the interrelated notions of 'revisitation', haunting residual traces and valediction to interrogate the Revolution's multiple appearances, reckonings and reconfigurations in art, photography, film, narrative fiction periodicals travel-testimonies and poetry, examining key constituencies of creative media in Mexico that have been involved in historicizing, contesting or evading the mixed legacies of the Revolution. The interplay of themes practices and context across the chapters (ranging from the 1920s through to the present day) draws on interdisciplinary thinking as well as new findings, framing the volume's discourse with a deliberately multi-dimensional approach to an often homogenized topic. The contributors' scholarly referencing of artists, novelists, poets, photographers, foreign correspondents, critics, filmmakers and curators is detailed and wide-ranging, creating new juxtapositions that include some rarely studied material. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : Cultural memories of an unquiet past / Erica Segre

On execution walls, bones, horses and tombs / Paul-Henri Giraud (translated by Catriona McAllister)

Future that was and yet might be / David Craven

Mirages of a Second Revolution / Iván Pérez Daniel (translated by Debra Nagao)

Xavier Villaurrutia's poetics of the flesh / Christina Karageorgou-Bastea

Through 'the literary-perception scrambler'? / Simon Carnell

Proletarian camera / Jesse Lerner

Fading echoes of the Revolution in Carlos Fuentes's Cristóbal Nonato / Steven Boldy

Residual presences of the Revolution (ary melodrama) in Mexico's contemporary transnational filmmaking / Dolores Tierney

Last rites from Frida Kahlo to Teresa Margolles / Oriana Baddeley.

Notes:

"This thematic volume emerged out of an interdisciplinary symposium (25 February 2010) and a film season (4 February-11March 2010) at Trinity College, Cambridge in association with the Centre of Latin American Studies"--Page 5.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-306) and index.

ISBN:

9783034307024

3034307020

OCLC:

857403974

Publisher Number:

99955216216