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Informationen zum Autor Araceli Tinajero is an associate professor of Spanish at the Graduate Center and City College of New York. She is the author of Orientalismo en el modernismo hispanoamericano , El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader, and Kokoro, una mexicana en Japón . Tinajero is the editor of Cultura y letras cubanas en el siglo XXI , Exilio y cosmopolitismo en el arte y la literature hispánica, and Orientalisms of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World . She is the cofounder of the Mexico Study Group at the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies. J. Brian Freeman is a visiting assistant professor of history at Fairleigh Dickinson University. His work has been published in various journals, including Studies in Latin American Popular Culture and the Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies . He is currently working on a book about the history of the automobile in twentieth-century Mexico. Klappentext Offers a novel approach to Mexican studies by considering the complex relationship between technology, politics, society, and culture. While it is widely accepted by scholars that substantial changes in technology occurred in Mexico during the last century, very little has been written on these issues. This diverse collection of chapters - written by historians, literary scholars, social scientists, and cultural critics - tells this long-neglected story of technological change. Zusammenfassung Technology and Culture in Twentieth-Century Mexico offers a novel approach to Mexican studies by considering the complex relationship between technology! politics! society! and culture.
