National Narratives In Mexico
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Author | : Enrique Florescano |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806137018 |
If history is written by the victors, then as the rulers of a nation change, so too does the history. Mexico has had many distinct periods of history, demonstrating clearly that the tale changes with the writer. In National Narratives in Mexico, Enrique Florescano examines each historical vision of Mexico as it was interpreted in its own time, revealing the influences of national or ethnic identity, culture, and evolving concepts of history and national memory. Florescano shows how the image of Mexico today is deeply rooted in ideas of past Mexicos—ancient Mexico, colonial Mexico, revolutionary Mexico—and how these ideas can be more fully understood by examining Mexico’s past historians. An awareness of the historian’s cultural perspective helps us to understand which types of evidence would be considered valid in constructing a national narrative. These considerations are important in modern Mexican historiography, as historians begin to question the validity of Mexico’s “collective memory.” Enhanced by more than two hundred drawings, photographs, and maps, National Narratives in Mexico offers a new vision of Mexico’s turbulent history.
Author | : Thomas Herbert Russell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Mexico |
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Author | : Armida de la Garza |
Publisher | : Arena books |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2006-12-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0954316169 |
Given its features as a modern mass medium and thus closely related to the nation, cinema has rightly been regarded as a privileged site for putting forward and contesting representations of national identity, or in short, as a main arena in which narratives of national identity are negotiated. What do films such as Amores Perros or Traffic say about Mexican identity? In what way could Bread and Roses or The Crime of Padre Amaro be part of its transformation? This book looks at representations of "e;Mexicanity"e; in Mexican cinema and also in Hollywood throughout the twentieth century and beyond, arguing that the international context plays at least as important a role as ethnicity, religion and language in the construction of images of the national self, although it is seldom taken into account in theories of national identity. The Mexican film may reveal much about Mexican society, e.g.,Traffic and the prevalence of drug trafficking, Bread and Roses, and the problems of migration; Amores Perros, in relation to metaphors of the nation as an extended family; The Crime of Father Amaro, in discussing the changing position of the Catholic Church; and Herod's Law, a scathing critique to the political system that dominated Mexico for the best part of the 20th century. Throughout, the book emphasises the contingent nature of hegemonic representations, and our ongoing need to tell and to listen to - or indeed, view - stories that weave together a variety of strands to convincingly tell us who we are.
Author | : Héctor Calderón |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780292705821 |
Once relegated to the borders of literature—neither Mexican nor truly American—Chicana/o writers have always been in the vanguard of change, articulating the multicultural ethnicities, shifting identities, border realities, and even postmodern anxieties and hostilities that already characterize the twenty-first century. Indeed, it is Chicana/o writers' very in-between-ness that makes them authentic spokespersons for an America that is becoming increasingly Mexican/Latin American and for a Mexico that is ever more Americanized. In this pioneering study, Héctor Calderón looks at seven Chicana and Chicano writers whose narratives constitute what he terms an American Mexican literature. Drawing on the concept of "Greater Mexican" culture first articulated by Américo Paredes, Calderón explores how the works of Paredes, Rudolfo Anaya, Tomás Rivera, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Cherríe Moraga, Rolando Hinojosa, and Sandra Cisneros derive from Mexican literary traditions and genres that reach all the way back to the colonial era. His readings cover a wide span of time (1892-2001), from the invention of the Spanish Southwest in the nineteenth century to the América Mexicana that is currently emerging on both sides of the border. In addition to his own readings of the works, Calderón also includes the writers' perspectives on their place in American/Mexican literature through excerpts from their personal papers and interviews, correspondence, and e-mail exchanges he conducted with most of them.
Author | : Kristin M. Hamon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Immigrants |
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Mexican immigrants to the United States, especially when compared to immigrants who leave their homelands far behind by sea or air, develops special relationships with both their home country and their new one: a border culture in which people cross and re-cross from one collective identity to another, varied by many individual and family narratives. As every journey begins with a single step, movement between available identities is propelled forward by specific purpose--whether an emotional journey out of a barrio microcosm or a spatial journey toward El Norte. Diverse Mexican American literary texts describing physical and cultural movement to and from real and imaginary homelands drive this ethnic group's immigrant narrative to spawn a number of related but unique identities and trajectories involving both immigrant and minority characteristics while maintaining ties to a larger national narrative essential to American culture.
Author | : Jeffrey M. Pilcher |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780842029766 |
Author | : Andrés Reséndez |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521543194 |
This book explores how the diverse and fiercely independent peoples of Texas and New Mexico came to think of themselves as members of one particular national community or another in the years leading up to the Mexican-American War. Hispanics, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans made agonizing and crucial identity decisions against the backdrop of two structural transformations taking place in the region during the first half of the 19th century and often pulling in opposite directions.
Author | : Mya Hansel Gelber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Chinese diaspora |
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Author | : Chris Frazer |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803220316 |
A look at the bandit in history and current legend, showing how those memories remain alive and well in Mexican society.
Author | : Miruna Achim |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081653957X |
Museum Matters tells the story of Mexico's national collections through the trajectories of its objects. The essays in this book show the many ways in which things matter and affect how Mexico imagines its past, present, and future.