Textured Lives: Women, Art, and Representation in Modern Mexico

by Claudia Schaefer

Book Overview

During the eight decades in the evolution of the modern Mexican nation, shifting relations of power have constantly met with voices of opposition that challenge the national vision of progress and unity. Textured Lives explores some of these cracks in the Mexican national edifice through the cultural practices of women in literature and the arts, focusing on individuals who represent crucial phases in Mexico's cultural history: Frida Kahlo and postrevolutionary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816512507
• ISBN13: 9780816512508
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.