Impossible Domesticity: Travels in Mexico

by Leila Gomez

Translated by Robert Weis 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822946912
• ISBN13: 9780822946915
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"