Impossible Domesticity: Travels in Mexico by Gomez, Leila

Impossible Domesticity: Travels in Mexico

Travelers from Europe, North, and South America often perceive Mexico as a mythical place onto which they...
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Author: Leila Gomez
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Impossible Domesticity: Travels in Mexico by Gomez, Leila

Impossible Domesticity: Travels in Mexico

$197.25

Impossible Domesticity: Travels in Mexico

$197.25
Author: Leila Gomez
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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. G mez 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 Bola o, 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.



Author: Leila Gomez
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 10/26/2021
Pages: 247
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780822946915

About the Author
Leila Gómez is associate professor of Spanish and director of the Latin American Studies Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She studies travel narratives in Latin America and their relation to informal empires and knowledge production in Europe and the Americas.

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