1968 Mexico - Constellations of Freedom and Democracy

Informationen zum Autor Susana Draper is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and author of Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America. Klappentext Susana Draper puts the events and aftermath of 1968 Mexico into a global picture and counters the dominant cultural narratives of 1968 by giving voice to the Mexican Marxist philosophers, political prisoners, and women who participated in the movement and inspired alternative forms of political participation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface  ix Acknowledgments  xv Introduction. The Movement of 1968  1 1. The Philosophical and Literary Configuration of '68: José Revueltas on Cognitive Democracy and Self-Management  35 2. The Effects of '68 on Cinema: The Image as a Place of Political Intervention  91 3. Where are the Women of '68? Fernanda Navarro and the Materialism of Uncomfortable Encounters  127 4. Remembrances from the Women's Prison and the Popular Preparatory:Of Freedom and Imprisonment by Roberta "La Tital" Avendaño and Ovarimony by Gladys López Hernández  157 Conclusion. '68 After Ayotzinapa  191 Notes  199 Bibliography  229 Index  245

Product details

• Authors: Susana Draper
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781478001010
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0101-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Radical Americas; Radical Americas; Radical Américas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas