Mexico's ruins : Juan Garcia Ponce and the writing of modernity / / Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez

• Autore: Rodriguez-Hernandez Raul
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Disciplina: 868/.6409
• Soggetto topico: Literature and society - Mexico; Politics and society - Mexico
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-210) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mexico's ruins
• ISBN: 0-7914-8082-8; 1-4294-7123-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814569103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.