Impossible Domesticity
Travels in Mexico
Seiten
2021
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-4691-5 (ISBN)
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-4691-5 (ISBN)
Examines perceptions of Mexico from around the world during the 19th and 20th century.
Travelers from Europe, North, and South America often perceive Mexico as a mythical place onto which they project their own cultures’ desires, fears, and anxieties. Gómez argues that Mexico’s role in these narratives was not passive and that the environment, peoples, ruins, political revolutions, and economy of Mexico were fundamental to the configuration of modern Western art and science. This project studies the images of Mexico and the ways they were contested by travelers of different national origins and trained in varied disciplines from the 19th to the 21st centuries. It starts with Humboldt, the German naturalist whose fame sprang from his trip to Mexico, and ends with Bolaño, the Chilean novelist whose work defines Mexico as an "oasis of horror." In between, there are archaeologists, photographers, war correspondents, educators, writers, and artists for whom the trip to Mexico represented a rite of passage, a turning point in their intellectual biographies, their scientific disciplines, and their artistic practices.
Travelers from Europe, North, and South America often perceive Mexico as a mythical place onto which they project their own cultures’ desires, fears, and anxieties. Gómez argues that Mexico’s role in these narratives was not passive and that the environment, peoples, ruins, political revolutions, and economy of Mexico were fundamental to the configuration of modern Western art and science. This project studies the images of Mexico and the ways they were contested by travelers of different national origins and trained in varied disciplines from the 19th to the 21st centuries. It starts with Humboldt, the German naturalist whose fame sprang from his trip to Mexico, and ends with Bolaño, the Chilean novelist whose work defines Mexico as an "oasis of horror." In between, there are archaeologists, photographers, war correspondents, educators, writers, and artists for whom the trip to Mexico represented a rite of passage, a turning point in their intellectual biographies, their scientific disciplines, and their artistic practices.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.10.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Pitt Illuminations |
| Verlagsort | Pittsburgh PA |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika |
| Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► Mexiko | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8229-4691-2 / 0822946912 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8229-4691-5 / 9780822946915 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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