Eagle and the Virgin (eBook, PDF)

Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940
Redaktion: Mary Kay Vaughan, Vaughan

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Produktbeschreibung

When the fighting of the Mexican Revolution died down in 1920, the national government faced the daunting task of building a cohesive nation. It had to establish control over a disparate and needy population and prepare the country for global economic competition. As part of this effort, the government enlisted the energy of artists and intellectuals in cultivating a distinctly Mexican identity. It devised a project for the incorporation of indigenous peoples and oversaw a vast, innovative program in the arts. The Eagle and the Virgin examines the massive nation-building project Mexico undertook between 1920 and 1940.Contributors explore the nation-building efforts of the government, artists, entrepreneurs, and social movements; their contradictory, often conflicting intersection; and their inevitably transnational nature. Scholars of political and social history, communications, and art history describe the creation of national symbols, myths, histories, and heroes to inspire patriotism and transform workers and peasants into efficient, productive, gendered subjects. They analyze the aesthetics of nation building made visible in murals, music, and architecture; investigate state projects to promote health, anticlericalism, and education; and consider the role of mass communications, such as cinema and radio, and the impact of road building. They discuss how national identity was forged among social groups, specifically political Catholics, industrial workers, middle-class women, and indigenous communities. Most important, the volume weighs in on debates about the tension between the eagle (the modernizing secular state) and the Virgin of Guadalupe (the Catholic defense of faith and morality). It argues that despite bitter, violent conflict, the symbolic repertoire created to promote national identity and memory making eventually proved capacious enough to allow the eagle and the virgin to coexist peacefully.Contributors. Adrian Bantjes, Katherine Bliss, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Joanne Hershfield, Stephen E. Lewis, Claudio Lomnitz, Rick A. Lopez, Sarah M. Lowe, Jean Meyer, James Oles, Patrice Olsen, Desmond Rochfort, Michael Snodgrass, Mary Kay Vaughan, Marco Velazquez, Wendy Waters, Adriana Zavala

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 395
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822387527
• Artikelnr.: 54818762

Autorenporträt

Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen E. Lewis, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations xii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction / Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen E. Lewis 1
I. The Aesthetics of Nation Building
The Noche Mexicana and the Exhibition of Popular Arts:
> The Sickle, the Serpent, and the Soil: History, Revolution, Nationhood,
and Modernity in the Murals of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and
David Alfaro Siqueiros / Desmond Rochfort 43
Painting in the Shadow of the Big Three
Frida Kahlo / Sarah M. Lowe 53
Maria Izquierdo / Adrianna Zavala 67
The Mexican Experience of Marion and Grace Greenwood / James Oles 79
Mestizaje and Musical Nationalism in Mexico/ Marco Velazquez and Mary Kay
Vaughan 95
Revolution in the City Streets: Changing Nomenclature, Changing Form, and
the Revision of Public Memory / Patrice Elizabeth Olsen 119
II. Utopian Projects of the State
Saints, Sinners, and the State Formation: Local Religion and Cultural
Revolution in Mexico / Adrian A. Bantjes 137
Nationalizing the Countryside: Schools and Rural Communities in the 1930’s
/ Mary Kay Vaughan 157
The Nation, Education, and the “Indian Problem” in Mexico, 1920–1940 /
Stephen E. Lewis 176
For the Health of the Nation: Gender and the Cultural Politics of Social
Hygiene in Revolutionary Mexico / Katherine E. Bliss 196
III. Mass Communication and Nation Building
Remapping Identities: Road Construction and Nation Building in
Postrevolutionary Mexico / Wendy Waters 221
National Imaginings on the Air: Radio in Mexico, 1920–1950 / Joy Elizabeth
Hayes 243
Screening the Nation / Joanne Hershfield 259
IV. Social Construction of Nations
An Idea of Mexico: Catholics in the Revolution / Jean Meyer 281
Guadalajaran Women and the Construction of National Identity / Maria Teresa
Fernandez Aceves 297
“We Are All Mexicans Here”: Workers, Patriotism, and Union Struggles in
Monterrey / Michael Snodgrass 314
Final Reflections: What Was Mexico’s Cultural Revolution? / Claudio Lomnitz
335
Contributors 351
Index 357