Elissa J. Rashkin

The Stridentist Movement in Mexico

The Avant-Garde and Cultural Change in the 1920s

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Produktbeschreibung

Stridentism (estridentismo) was a literary, artistic, and cultural movement founded in Mexico in the 1920s by poets Manuel Maples Arce, Germán List Arzubide, and Salbador Gallardo, prose writer Arqueles Vela, painters Fermin Revueltas, Ramón Alva de la Canal, Leopoldo Méndez, and Jean Charlot, and sculptor Germán Cueto. This book is a wide-ranging study of Stridentism that emphasizes the multifaceted nature of its contributions and addresses key debates in this period of Mexican cultural history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9780739131565
• ISBN-10: 0739131567
• Artikelnr.: 26333825

Autorenporträt

Elissa J. Rashkin is researcher in cultural and communication studies at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico and author of Women Filmmakers in Mexico: The Country of Which We Dream (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Stridentist Adventure Part 2 Part One:
Metropolis Chapter 3 1. Manifestos Chapter 4 2. Charting the Territory
Chapter 5 3. Artistic Affiliations Chapter 6 4. Stridentist Art and Artists
Chapter 7 5. From the Street to the Stage Chapter 8 6. Politics and the
Avant-Garde Chapter 9 7. Women, Sexuality, and Modernity Part 10 Part Two:
Horizons Chapter 11 8. The Invented Provinces Chapter 12 9. Stridentopolis
Chapter 13 10. New (and Old) Horizons Chapter 14 11. Xavier Icaza and
Stridentism Chapter 15 12. Eternity