Effects Of The Nation: Mexican Art In Age Of Globalization

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What is the effect of a "nation"? In this age of globalization, is it dead, dying, or only dormant? The essays in this groundbreaking volume use the arts in Mexico to move beyond the national and the global to look at the activity of a community continually re-creating itself within and beyond its own borders. Mexico is a particularly apt focus, partly because of the vitality of its culture, partly because of its changing political identity, and partly because of the impact of borders and borderlessness on its national character. The ten essays collected here look at a wide range of.;Contents; Introduction: Ungoverned Specificities; 1 Mexican Art on Display; 2 Mathias Goeritz: Emotional Architecture and; 3 Corporeal Identities in Mexican Art: Modern and; 4 Elena Poniatowska's Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela:; 5 "Un octubre manchado se detiene": Memory and; 6 Aesthetic Criteria and the Literary Market in Mexico:; 7 Un hogar insólito: Elena Garro and Mexican; 8 René Derouin: Dialogues with Mexico; 9 Unhomely Feminine: Rosina Conde; 10 The Postmodern Hybrid: Do Aliens Dream; About the Contributors; Index.