Claire Lindsay

Magazines, Tourism, and Nation-Building in Mexico

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This open access book discusses the relationship between periodicals, tourism, and nation-building in Mexico. It enquires into how magazines, a staple form of the promotional apparatus of tourism since its inception, articulated an imaginative geography of Mexico at a time when that industry became a critical means of economic recovery and political stability after the Revolution. Notwithstanding their vogue, popularity, reach, and close affiliations to commerce and state over several decades, magazines have not received any sustained critical attention in the scholarship on that period. This book aims to redress that oversight. It argues that illustrated magazines like Mexican Folkways (1925-1937) and Mexico This Month (1955-1971) offer rich and compelling materials in that regard, not only as unique tools for interrogating the ramifications of tourism on the country's reconstruction, but as autonomous objects of study that form a vital if complex part of Mexico's visual culture.

Produktdetails

• Studies of the Americas
• Verlag: Palgrave Pivot / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin / University College London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-01002-7
• 1st ed. 2019
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9783030010027
• ISBN-10: 3030010023
• Artikelnr.: 53572292

Autorenporträt

Claire Lindsay is Reader in Latin American Literature and Culture at University College London, UK. She is the author of Locating Latin American Women Writers and Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. Tourism, Nation-Building, and Magazines.- 3. Tourism Advertisements in Mexican Folkways (1925-1937).- 4. Mapping Capital in Mexico, This Month (1955-1971).- 5. Conclusion.