Impossible Domesticity: Travels in Mexico
(Part of the Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas Series)
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Translated by Robert Weis 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. G mez 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 nineteenth to the twenty-first century. It starts with Alexander von Humboldt, the German naturalist whose fame sprang from his trip to Mexico and Latin America, and ends with Roberto Bola o, 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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0822946912
ISBN13:9780822946915
Release Date:October 2021
Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
Length:247 Pages
Weight:1.19 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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