LEADER 03338nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910972476903321 005 20251116215836.0 010 $a9780791480823 010 $a0791480828 010 $a9781429471237 010 $a1429471239 035 $a(CKB)1000000000474015 035 $a(OCoLC)137662026 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10575918 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000202129 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11216682 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000202129 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10252150 035 $a(PQKB)10172392 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6481 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407492 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10575918 035 $a(DE-B1597)684314 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791480823 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407492 035 $a(Perlego)2672006 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000474015 100 $a20060120d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMexico's ruins $eJuan Garcia Ponce and the writing of modernity /$fRaul Rodriguez-Hernandez 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (229 p.) 225 1 $aSUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780791469446 311 08$a0791469441 311 08$a9780791469439 311 08$a0791469433 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-210) and index. 327 $aTraces of theory, tropes of modernity -- The storyteller's ruins -- Monuments and relics, I -- Monuments and relics, II -- De a?nima, de corpore : the ruins of the bourgeois world -- Modernity, contingency, compensation -- A brief return to the ruin. 330 $aAt face value, the concept of modernity seems to reference a stream of social and historical traffic headed down a utopian one-way street named "progress." Mexico's Ruins examines modernity in twentieth-century Mexican culture as a much more ambiguous concept, arguing that such a single-minded notion is inadequate to comprehend the complexity of modern Mexico's national projects and their reception by the nation's citizenry. Instead, through the trope of modernity as ruin, author Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández explores the dilemma presented by the etymology of "ruins": a simultaneous falling down and rising up, a confluence of opposing forces at work on the skyline of the metropolis since 1968. He focuses on artists and writers of the generación de medio siglo, like Juan García Ponce, and envisions both the tales of modernity and their storytellers in a new light. The arts, literature, and architecture of twentieth-century Mexico are all examined in this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary book. 410 0$aSUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture. 606 $aLiterature and society$zMexico 606 $aPolitics and society$zMexico 615 0$aLiterature and society 615 0$aPolitics and society 676 $a868/.6409 700 $aRodri?guez-Herna?ndez$b Rau?l$01805120 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972476903321 996 $aMexico's ruins$94353548 997 $aUNINA