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. Gómez 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 Bolaño, 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.

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Information

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Year

2021

ISBN

9780822988502

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Latin American & Caribbean Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Humboldt in Mexico: The Aleph in Latin America
Chapter 2. Désiré Charnay in Mexico: Between Politics and Science
Chapter 3. Fanny Calderón in Mexico: Objects and Identity
Chapter 4. John Reed in Mexico: Between Comedy and Epic
Chapter 5. Gabriela Mistral in Mexico: Teacher, Mother, and Saint
Chapter 6. Antonin Artaud in Mexico: The Economy of Failure
Chapter 7. The Beats in Mexico: Vagabond Poets William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac
Chapter 8. “An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom”: Mexico in Roberto Bolaño
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index