Fictions Of Perverse Modernity In Nineteenth Century Mexico City
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Santa
Author | : Federico Gamboa |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 080783369X |
This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the city, Santa turns to prostitution and soon gains prominence as Mexico City's most sought-after courtesan. Despite the opportunities afforded by her success, including the chance to quit prostitution, Santa is propelled by her personal demons toward her ultimate downfall. This evocative novel--justly famous for its vividly detailed depiction of the cityscape and the city's customs, social interactions, and political activities--assumed singular importance in Mexican popular culture after its original publication in 1903. The book inspired Mexico's first "talkie" and several other film adaptations, a music score, a radio series, a television soap opera, and a pornographic comic book. Naturalist writer Federico Gamboa, who was also a lawyer and politician, reveals much about Mexican mores and culture at the start of the twentieth century and beyond, from expectations regarding gender roles to the myth of the corrupting and decadent city. In describing how Santa is at the mercy of social problems beyond her control, Gamboa provides a rich historical portrayal of widespread conditions in the years leading to the Mexican Revolution.
Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Author | : Verity Smith |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9781579582524 |
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Treasures in Heaven
Author | : Kathleen Alcalá |
Publisher | : TriQuarterly Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Domestic fiction |
ISBN | : 9780810120365 |
One woman's powerful personal and political awakening promises the start of revolution in nineteenth-century Mexico.
Chapultepec
Author | : Norman Zollinger |
Publisher | : Forge Books |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312855307 |
Set in the mid-eighteenth century, a historical saga of the Mexican Revolution centers on the love affair between Corporal Jason James of the Kansas Rifles and New Englander Sarah Anderson, who is devoted to the Mexican cause.
Two-timing Modernity
Author | : Keith Vincent |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Homosexuality in literature |
ISBN | : 9780674067127 |
Two-Timing Modernity integrates queer, feminist, and narratological approaches to show how key works by Japanese male authors in the early twentieth century encompassed both a straight future and a queer past by staging tensions between Japan's newly heteronormative culture and the recent memory of a male homosocial past now read as perverse.
Mexico city
Author | : Len Deighton |
Publisher | : Rizzoli |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9788817204507 |
Errant Modernism
Author | : Esther Gabara |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2008-12-15 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0822389398 |
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 acted as tourists and ethnographers, and their images and texts circulated in popular mass media, sharing the page with photographs of the New Woman. In this richly illustrated study, Gabara introduces the concept of a modernist “ethos” to illuminate the intertwining of aesthetic innovation and ethical concerns in the work of leading Brazilian and Mexican literary figures, who were also photographers, art critics, and contributors to illustrated magazines during the 1920s and 1930s. Gabara argues that Brazilian and Mexican modernists deliberately made photography err: they made this privileged medium of modern representation simultaneously wander and work against its apparent perfection. They flouted the conventions of mainstream modernism so that their aesthetics registered an ethical dimension. Their photographic modernism strayed, dragging along the baggage of modernity lived in a postcolonial site. Through their “errant modernism,” avant-garde writers and photographers critiqued the colonial history of Latin America and its twentieth-century formations.
Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 909 |
Release | : 2017-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004346252 |
Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution since 1600. It analyses more than 20 cities with an important sex industry and compares policies and social trends, coercion and agency, but also prostitutes' working and living conditions.