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Revisiting the Mexican Student Movement of 1968
Tracing the evolution of Mexican literary and cultural production following the Tlatelolco massacre, this book shows its progression from a homogeneous construct set on establishing the “true” history of Tlatelolco against the version of the State, to a more nuanced and complex series of historical narratives. The initial representations of the events of 1968 were essentially limited to that of the State and that of the Consejo Nacional de Huelga (National Strike Council) and only later incorporated novels and films. Juan J. Rojo examines the manner in which films, posters, testimonios, and the Memorial del 68 expanded the boundaries of those initial articulations to a more democratic representation of key participants in the student movement of 1968.
Crip Times
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: crip times -- An austerity of representation; or, crip/queer horizons : disability and dispossession -- Crip resistance -- Inhabitable spaces : crip displacements and el edificio de enfrente -- Crip figures : disability, austerity and aspiration -- Epilogue: some (disabled) aspects of the immigrant question -- Notes -- Works cited -- About the author -- Index
Errant Modernism
Making a vital contribution to the understanding of Latin American modernism, Esther Gabara rethinks the role of photography in the Brazilian and Mexican avant-garde movements of the 1920s and 1930s. During these decades, intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil were deeply engaged with photography. Authors who are now canonical figures in the two countries’ literary traditions looked at modern life through the camera in a variety of ways. Mário de Andrade, known as the “pope” of Brazilian modernism, took and collected hundreds of photographs. Salvador Novo, a major Mexican writer, meditated on the medium’s aesthetic potential as “the prodigal daughter of the fine arts.” Intellectuals...
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Searching for Madre Matiana
Edward Wright-Rios examines the much-maligned--and sometimes celebrated--character of Madre Matiana and her position in the development of Mexico.
Tijuana Dreaming
Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, featuring selections by prominent scholars, journalists, bloggers, novelists, poets, curators, and photographers from Tijuana and greater Mexico.
Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity
This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of the neo-liberal order in the 1980s.
Dolor crónico
Este libro desarrolla la magnitud y el comportamiento del dolor crónico, da cuenta de la complejidad de este fenómenos social. El dolor no sólo es provocado por las lesiones tisulares, sino la afectación de la subjetividad emocional, que deviene en un drama social, vivencias condicionadas por tensiones sociales, económicas, familiares y de pareja, síntomas y signos entretejidos con el sufrimiento, por lo que se hace necesaria una comprensión integral de las personas.
Lecturas interdisciplinares de los cuerpos: discursos, emociones y afectos
Desde la interdisciplinariedad, los siete capítulos que conforman este libro colectivo buscan reflexionar sobre la relación entre cuerpo, discursos, afectos y emociones, y sus implicaciones teóricas y metodológicas. Reúne investigaciones de México y Colombia desde la historia, la sociología, la crítica literaria, el feminismo, el arte y los estudios culturales.
