The Effects of the Nation: Mexican Art in an Age of Globalization

Carl Good|John Waldron

ISBN 10: 1566398657 / ISBN 13: 9781566398657

Edité par TEMPLE UNIV PR, 2001

Features essays that use the arts in Mexico to move beyond the national and the global to look at the activity of a community continually re-creating itself within and beyond its own borders. This work looks at a range of aesthetic productions especially li. N° de réf. du vendeur 867691117

Synopsis :

What is the effect of a nation? In this age of globalization, is it dead, dying, or only dormant? The essays in this groundbreaking volume use the arts in Mexico to move beyond the national and the global to look at the activity of a community continually re-creating itself within and beyond its own borders.
Mexico is a particularly apt focus, partly because of the vitality of its culture, partly because of its changing political identity, and partly because of the impact of borders and borderlessness on its national character. The ten essays collected here look at a wide range of aesthetic productions -- especially literature and the visual arts -- that give context to how art and society interact.
Steering a careful course between the nostalgia of nationalism and the insensitivity of globalism, these essays examine modernism and postmodernism in the Mexican setting. Individually, they explore the incorporation of historical icons, of vanguardism, and of international influence. From Diego Rivera to Elena Garro, from the Tlateloco massacre to the Chiapas rebellion, from mass-market fiction to the film "Aliens," the contributors view the many sides of Mexican life as relevant to the creation of a constantly shifting national culture. Taken together, the essays look both backward and forward at the evolving effect of the Mexican nation.

À propos de l?auteur: Carl Good is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Emory University.

John V. Waldron is an independent scholar living in Connecticut.

CONTRIBUTORS:  Danny J. Anderson, Rebecca E. Biron, Bruce-Novoa, Debra A. Castillo, Karen Cordero Reiman, Olivier Debroise, Montserrat Gali Boadella, Rolando Romero, Susan C. Schaffer, Jacobo Sefami, and the editors.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Effects of the Nation: Mexican Art in an...
Éditeur : TEMPLE UNIV PR
Date d'édition : 2001
Reliure : Gebunden
Etat : New