In this Book
- Artful Assassins: Murder as Art in Modern Mexico
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
Sanchez argues that the seemingly hopeless cycle of violence experienced by Mexico in the 20th century, as reflected in its "crime genre," reveals a broader intrinsic cultural and political failure that suggests grave implications for the current state of crisis. Tracing the development of a national Mexican identity from the 1910 Mexican Revolution onward, Sanchez focuses on the indelible presence of violence and crime underlying the major works that contributed to a larger communal narrative.
Artful Assassins ultimately offers a panoramic overview of the evolution of Mexican arts and letters, as well as nationalism, by claiming murder and assassination as literary and cinematic motifs. The collapse of post-revolutionary political unity was presaged all along in Mexican culture, Sanchez argues. It need only to have been sought in the art of the nation.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-7
- Conclusions
- pp. 179-183
- Bibliography
- pp. 199-218
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Copyright
2010