Ghosts of the Revolution in Mexican Literature and Visual Culture: Revisitations in Modern and Contemporary Creative Media
The official centenary commemorating the Mexican Revolution of 1910 led to this specially commissioned volume, which explores notions such as 'revisitation', haunting and memorialization through a detailed examination of Mexican art, photography, film, narrative fiction, periodicals, travel-testimonies and poetry.
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Ghosts of the Revolution in Mexican Literature and Visual Culture: Revisitations in Modern and Contemporary Creative Media
The official centenary commemorating the Mexican Revolution of 1910 led to this specially commissioned volume, which explores notions such as 'revisitation', haunting and memorialization through a detailed examination of Mexican art, photography, film, narrative fiction, periodicals, travel-testimonies and poetry.
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Ghosts of the Revolution in Mexican Literature and Visual Culture: Revisitations in Modern and Contemporary Creative Media

Ghosts of the Revolution in Mexican Literature and Visual Culture: Revisitations in Modern and Contemporary Creative Media

Ghosts of the Revolution in Mexican Literature and Visual Culture: Revisitations in Modern and Contemporary Creative Media

Ghosts of the Revolution in Mexican Literature and Visual Culture: Revisitations in Modern and Contemporary Creative Media

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The official centenary commemorating the Mexican Revolution of 1910 led to this specially commissioned volume, which explores notions such as 'revisitation', haunting and memorialization through a detailed examination of Mexican art, photography, film, narrative fiction, periodicals, travel-testimonies and poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783034307024
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 07/29/2013
Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies: The Arts, Literature, and Identity , #4
Pages: 316
Product dimensions: 5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Erica Segre is Lecturer in Latin American and Hispanic Studies and Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. She specializes in nineteenth-century Latin American literature and thought and twentieth-century and contemporary visual culture. Her monograph Intersected Identities: Strategies of Visualization in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Mexican Culture was published in 2007.

Table of Contents

Contents: ‘The Dead Letter’ by Simon Carnell – Erica Segre: Introduction: Cultural Memories of an Unquiet Past: Charting Ghosts of the Mexican Revolution in Mexican Literature, Film, Art and Photography – Paul-Henri Giraud: On Execution Walls, Bones, Horses and Tombs: Phantasmal Motifs and Funereal Tropes in Twentieth-Century Photography, Print and Painting in Mexico – David Craven: The Future That Was and Yet Might Be: The Mexican Revolution at 100 and its Afterimage in the Arts – Iván Pérez Daniel: Mirages of a Second Revolution: Mexican Writers and Socialist Realism (The Case of the Magazine Ruta, 1933-1935) – Christina Karageorgou-Bastea: Xavier Villaurrutia’s Poetics of the Flesh: Experience, Promiscuity and the Introspective Revolution, 1930s-1940s – Simon Carnell: Through ‘the Literary-Perception Scrambler’? : Lawrence, Huxley, Greene, Waugh and Lowry in Mexico between the Wars – Jesse Lerner: The Proletarian Camera: Héctor García and the Reconfiguring of the Mexican Stree – Steven Boldy: Fading Echoes of the Revolution in Carlos Fuentes’s Cristóbal Nonato – Dolores Tierney: Residual Presences of the Revolution(ary Melodrama) in Mexico’s Contemporary Transnational Filmmaking – Oriana Baddeley: Last Rites from Frida Kahlo to Teresa Margolles: Mexicanness and Visualizing the Politics of Victimhood.
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