Mexico at the World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation: 35 (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics) - Hardcover

Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio

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ISBN 10: 0520202678 ISBN 13: 9780520202672

Verlag: University of California Press, 1996

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Book by TenorioTrillo Mauricio

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This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair--where its display was the largest and most expensive Mexico has ever mounted--with Mexico's presence after the 1910 Mexican Revolution at fairs in Rio de Janeiro in 1922 and Seville in 1929. Rather than seeing the revolution as a sharp break, Tenorio-Trillo points to important continuities between the pre- and post-revolution periods. He also discusses how, internationally, the character of world's fairs was radically transformed during this time, from the Eiffel Tower prototype, encapsulating a wondrous symbolic universe, to the Disneyland model of commodified entertainment. Drawing on cultural, intellectual, urban, literary, social, and art histories, Tenorio-Trillo's thorough and imaginative study presents a broad cultural history of Mexico from 1880 to 1930, set within the context of the origins of Western nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and modernism.

Nota de la solapa:

"This superb study . . . raises provocative questions about cultural constructions of nationalism and modernity. A fine example of interdisciplinary thinking and writing."—Robert W. Rydell, author of World of Fairs

"It is a pleasure to read such a fine book by a most promising young scholar. Based on a wide range of heretofore unknown or little used sources, Tenorio-Trillo's book will make a strong impact on the field."—Charles A. Hale, author of The Transformation of Liberalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0520202678
• ISBN 13: 9780520202672
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 383