Coffey Mary K. Coffey

Orozco's American Epic (eBook, PDF)

Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race

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Produktbeschreibung

Between 1932 and 1934, Jose Clemente Orozco painted the twenty-four-panel mural cycle entitled The Epic of American Civilization in Dartmouth College's Baker-Berry Library. An artifact of Orozco's migration from Mexico to the United States, the Epic represents a turning point in his career, standing as the only fresco in which he explores both US-American and Mexican narratives of national history, progress, and identity. While his title invokes the heroic epic form, the mural indicts history as complicit in colonial violence. It questions the claims of Manifest Destiny in the United States and the Mexican desire to mend the wounds of conquest in pursuit of a postcolonial national project. In Orozco's American Epic Mary K. Coffey places Orozco in the context of his contemporaries, such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and demonstrates the Epic's power as a melancholic critique of official indigenism, industrial progress, and Marxist messianism. In the process, Coffey finds within Orozco's work a call for justice that resonates with contemporary debates about race, immigration, borders, and nationality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478003304
• Artikelnr.: 66282587

Autorenporträt

Mary K. Coffey

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  ix
Preface  xv
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction  1
1. Orozco's Melancholy Dialectics  43
2. Colonial Melancholy and the Myth of Quetzalcoatl  79
3. American Modernity and the Play of Mourning  123
4. "Modern Industrial Man" and the Melancholy of Race in America  207
Conclusion  261
Notes  287
Bibliography  325
Index