Impossible Domesticity

Travels in Mexico

Impossible Domesticity
Leila Gomez
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 247pg
26 Oct 2021 US
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9780822946915
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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. Gomez 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 19th to the 21st centuries. It starts with Humboldt, the German naturalist whose fame sprang from his trip to Mexico, and ends with Bolano, 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.
"This beautifully conceived book consolidates Leila Gomez' s standing as one of the foremost specialists in the literature on travel in Spanish America. Impossible Domesticity focuses on the ways ' the travel experience' destabilized deeply held notions of race, class, gender, and culture and shaped narratives that countered orientalist and stereotypical representations of Mexico. By doing so, she restores the agency of local scenarios, peoples, and knowledges in the production of travel and literary accounts. This is a highly original study that deserves wide readership and discussion. " --Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon
Leila Gomez 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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ISBN-13: 9780822946915
Published: 26 Oct 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 247

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