03189nam 2200625Ia 450 991081456910332120200520144314.00-7914-8082-81-4294-7123-9(CKB)1000000000474015(OCoLC)137662026(CaPaEBR)ebrary10575918(SSID)ssj0000202129(PQKBManifestationID)11216682(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000202129(PQKBWorkID)10252150(PQKB)10172392(MdBmJHUP)muse6481(Au-PeEL)EBL3407492(CaPaEBR)ebr10575918(DE-B1597)684314(DE-B1597)9780791480823(MiAaPQ)EBC3407492(EXLCZ)99100000000047401520060120d2007 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMexico's ruins Juan Garcia Ponce and the writing of modernity /Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20071 online resource (229 p.)SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-6944-1 0-7914-6943-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-210) and index.Traces of theory, tropes of modernity -- The storyteller's ruins -- Monuments and relics, I -- Monuments and relics, II -- De ánima, de corpore : the ruins of the bourgeois world -- Modernity, contingency, compensation -- A brief return to the ruin.At face value, the concept of modernity seems to reference a stream of social and historical traffic headed down a utopian one-way street named "progress." Mexico's Ruins examines modernity in twentieth-century Mexican culture as a much more ambiguous concept, arguing that such a single-minded notion is inadequate to comprehend the complexity of modern Mexico's national projects and their reception by the nation's citizenry. Instead, through the trope of modernity as ruin, author Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández explores the dilemma presented by the etymology of "ruins": a simultaneous falling down and rising up, a confluence of opposing forces at work on the skyline of the metropolis since 1968. He focuses on artists and writers of the generación de medio siglo, like Juan García Ponce, and envisions both the tales of modernity and their storytellers in a new light. The arts, literature, and architecture of twentieth-century Mexico are all examined in this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary book.SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.Literature and societyMexicoPolitics and societyMexicoLiterature and societyPolitics and society868/.6409Rodriguez-Hernandez Raul1669142MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814569103321Mexico's ruins4030233UNINA