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10%OFFHoracio Legrás - Culture and Revolution: Violence, Memory, and the Making of Modern Mexico - 9781477310755 - V9781477310755
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Culture and Revolution: Violence, Memory, and the Making of Modern Mexico

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Description for Culture and Revolution: Violence, Memory, and the Making of Modern Mexico Paperback. Series: Border Hispanisms. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 491.

In the twenty years of postrevolutionary rule in Mexico, the war remained fresh in the minds of those who participated in it, while the enigmas of the revolution remained obscured. Demonstrating how textuality helped to define the revolution, Culture and Revolution examines dozens of seemingly ahistorical artifacts to reveal the radical social shifts that emerged in the war’s aftermath.

Presented thematically, this expansive work explores radical changes that resulted from postrevolution culture, including new internal migrations; a collective imagining of the future; popular biographical narratives, such as that of the life of Frida Kahlo; and attempts to create a national history ... Read more

Tracing the formation of modern Mexico during the 1920s and 1930s, Legrás also demonstrates that the proliferation of artifacts—extending from poetry and film production to labor organization and political apparatuses—gave unprecedented visibility to previously marginalized populations, who ensured that no revolutionary faction would unilaterally shape Mexico’s historical process during these formative years.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Series
Border Hispanisms
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9781477310755
SKU
V9781477310755
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About Horacio Legrás
HORACIO LEGRÁS is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Literature and Subjection: The Economy of Writing and Marginality in Latin America.

Reviews for Culture and Revolution: Violence, Memory, and the Making of Modern Mexico
"Culture and Revolution centers the role of artists, writers, photographers and filmmakers in the 'invention' of modern Mexico during the 1920s and 1930s...Although most texts in Culture and Revolution have been analysed before, Legrás' original and provocative synthesis revives a heterogeneous revolutionary spirit belied by their canonical status in the 'official story' of modern Mexico."
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