Description
Book SynopsisIn the months leading up to the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City, students took to the streets, calling for greater democratization and decrying crackdowns on political resistance by the ruling PRI party. During a mass meeting held at the Plaza of the Three Cultures in the Tlatelolco neighborhood, paramilitary forces opened fire on the gathering. The death toll from the massacre remains a contested number, ranging from an official count in the dozens to estimates in the hundreds by journalists and scholars. Rereading the legacy of this tragedy through diverse artistic-political interventions across the decades, Photopoetics at Tlatelolco explores the state’s dual repression—both the massacre’s crushing effects on the movement and the manipulation of cultural discourse and political thought in the aftermath.
Examining artifacts ranging from documentary photography and testimony to poetry, essays, chronicles, cinema, literary texts, video, and performan
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Archive and Event
- 2. Postponed Images: The Plenitude of the Unfinished
- 3. Testimonio and the Future without Excision
- 4. Exorcinema: Spectral Transitions
- 5. Literary Restoration
- 6. An-archaeologies of 1968
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
