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Contemporary Colonialities in Mexico and Beyond / Alejandro Mejías-López, Kathleen Myers, Beth Boyd, Pablo García Loaeza, Cara Kinnally.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2024 Available online
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2024- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myers, Kathleen, Author.
- Boyd, Beth, Author.
- García Loaeza, Pablo, Author.
- Mejías-López, Alejandro, Author.
- Series:
- Latinoamericana
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Mexico.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.) : 5 b&w illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Contemporary Colonialities in Mexico and Beyond explores the changing dynamic of coloniality by focusing on how modern cultural products connect to the foundational structures of colonialism. The book examines how these structures have perpetuated discourses of racial, ethnic, gender, and social exclusion rooted in Mexico’s history. Given the intimate relationship between coloniality and modernity, the volume addresses three central questions: How does the Mexican colonial history influence the definition of Mexico from within and outside its borders? What issues rooted in coloniality recur over time and space? And finally, how do cultural products provide a concrete and tangible way of studying coloniality, its history, and its evolution? The book analyses how literary works, movies, television series, and social media posts reconfigure colonial difference and spatialization. Supported by careful historical and cultural contextualization, these analyses will allow readers to appreciate contemporary Mexico vis-à-vis culture and borderland issues in the United States and debates on imperial memory in Spain. Ultimately, Contemporary Colonialities in Mexico and Beyond presents a handbook for readers looking to learn more about coloniality as a pervasive part of global interactions today.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Notable Dates and Events
- Introduction: Contemporary Mexican Coloniality
- 1 An Archaeology of Coloniality: José Emilio Pacheco’s and Alfonso Cuarón’s Colonia Roma
- 2 Pocket-Sized Apocalypses: Coloniality in Juan José Arreola’s La feria and Carlos Reygadas’s “Este es mi reino”
- 3 Colonial Foundations, Digital Futures: Recasting the Spanish Conquest in Social Media
- 4 Travel, Migration, and the Making of Borderlands: Life and Death in the Neocolony
- 5 On Bad Education and Growing Flowers: Colonial/Imperial Legacies in Arturo Pérez- Reverte, Pedro Almodóvar, and Manolo Caro
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-5123-1
- 1-4875-5122-3
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