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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787126203321

Autore

Albarrán Elena Jackson

Titolo

Seen and heard in Mexico : children and revolutionary cultural nationalism / / Elena Jackson Albarrán

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-8032-6682-0

0-8032-6684-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (414 pages)

Collana

The Mexican experience

Disciplina

305.230972

Soggetti

Children - Mexico

Children and politics

Mexico History 1910-1946

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : seen and heard in revolutionary Mexico -- Constructing citizens : adult-produced science, space, symbolism, and rhetoric for the revolutionary child -- Pulgarcito and Popocatépetl : children's art curriculum and the creation of a national aesthetic -- A community of invisible little friends : technology and power in children's radio programs -- Comino vence al diablo and other terrifying episodes : Teatro Guiñol's itinerant puppet theater -- Hacer patria through peer education : literacy, alcohol, and the proletarian child -- Hermanitos de la raza : civic organizations and international diplomacy -- Conclusion : exceptional and everyday citizen.

Sommario/riassunto

An examination of the Mexican government's use of children to advance their state-formation goals following the Mexican Revolution, and the experience of children during this campaign.