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Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940
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Description for Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940
Paperback. First cultural history of post-1940s Mexico to relate issues of representation and meaning to questions of power Editor(s): Joseph, Gilbert M.; Rubenstein, Anne; Zolov, Eric. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 528 pages, 54 photographs, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJH; 3JJP; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6147 x 4039 x 31. Weight in Grams: 717.
During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other state in the western hemisphere. Fragments of a Golden Age provides a comprehensive cultural history of the vibrant Mexico that emerged after 1940. Agreeing that the politics of culture and its production, dissemination, and reception constitute one of the keys to understanding this period of Mexican history, the volume's contributors-historians, popular writers, anthropologists, artists, and cultural critics-weigh in on a wealth of topics from music, tourism, television, and sports to theatre, unions, art, and magazines. Each ... Read more
During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other state in the western hemisphere. Fragments of a Golden Age provides a comprehensive cultural history of the vibrant Mexico that emerged after 1940. Agreeing that the politics of culture and its production, dissemination, and reception constitute one of the keys to understanding this period of Mexican history, the volume's contributors-historians, popular writers, anthropologists, artists, and cultural critics-weigh in on a wealth of topics from music, tourism, television, and sports to theatre, unions, art, and magazines. Each ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
American Encounters/Global Interactions
Condition
New
Weight
716g
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822327189
SKU
V9780822327189
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About Joseph
Gilbert M. Joseph is Farnam Professor of History at Yale University and the coeditor of Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico and Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations, both published by Duke University Press. Anne Rubenstein is Associate Professor of History, York University, ... Read more
Reviews for Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940
This marvelous book is an antidote to a generation's worth of simplifications, romantizations, and folklorizations of Mexican culture. Throughout the book the authors always take the close view, so that we become intimate with the unfolding complexities and contradictions of Mexican culture, rather than being intimidated by them. By the end, we have come to understand Mexican culture as politics, ... Read more