Contemporary Colonialities in Mexico and Beyond

Shedding light on historical moments and geographic locations, this book explores coloniality and its legacies in contemporary Mexico.

List of contents

Chronology of Notable Dates and Events
Introduction: Contemporary Mexican Coloniality
Justin Knight
1. An Archaeology of Coloniality: José Emilio Pacheco’s and Alfonso Cuarón’s Colonia Roma
Kathleen Ann Myers
2. Pocket-Size Apocalypses: Coloniality in Juan José Arreola’s La feria and Carlos Reygadas’ "Este es mi reino"
Pablo García Loaeza
3. Popular Culture, Popular Piety: Religion, Secularism, and Colonial Inheritances in Twenty-First Century Social Media
Beth T. Boyd
4. Travel, Migration, and the Making of Borderlands: Life and Death in the (Neo)Colony
Cara Anne Kinnally
5. On Bad Education and Growing Flowers: Colonial-Imperial Legacies in Arturo Pérez Reverte, Pedro Almodóvar, and Manolo Caro
Alejandro Mejías-López

About the author

By Kathleen Ann Myers, Beth T. Boyd, Pablo García Loaeza, Cara Anne Kinnally, and Alejandro Mejías-López
Introduction by Justin Knight

Product details

• Authors: Beth Boyd, Beth T Boyd, Garc&, Pablo Garcia Loaeza, Pablo García Loaeza, Cara Kinnally, Alejandro Mejias-Lopez, Alejandro Mejías-López, Kathleen Myers, Kathleen Ann Myers, Kathleen Boyd Myers
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781487551216
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-5121-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: LATINOAMERICANA
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology