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BECOMING MODERN BECOMING TRADITION

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Description for BECOMING MODERN BECOMING TRADITION Paperback. BIC Classification: JN. Dimension: 256 x 203 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1396.

Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition examines the relationships among women, nationalism, racial identity, and modernity before, during, and after the Mexican Revolution. In this innovative study, Adriana Zavala demonstrates that the image of Mexican womanhood, whether stereotyped as Indian, urban, modern, sexually “degenerate,” or otherwise, was symbolically charged in complex ways both before and after the so-called postrevolutionary cultural renaissance, and that crucial aspects of postrevolutionary culture remained rooted in nineteenth-century conceptions of woman as the bearer of cultural and social tradition. Focusing on images of women in a variety of contexts—including works by such artists as Diego Rivera, José Clemente ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
University Park, United States
ISBN
9780271035246
SKU
V9780271035246
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About Adriana Zavala
Adriana Zavala is Associate Professor of Art History at Tufts University.

Reviews for BECOMING MODERN BECOMING TRADITION
“This important research will add significantly to the understanding of this period of Mexican history.” —Magali M. Carrera, University of Massachusetts

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