{"product_id":"photopoetics-at-tlatelolco-9781477307489","title":"Photopoetics at Tlatelolco","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003ePhotopoetics at Tlatelolco\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining artifacts ranging from documentary photography and testimony to poetry, essays, chronicles, cinema, literary texts, video, and performan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Archive and Event\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Postponed Images: The Plenitude of the Unfinished\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. \u003ci\u003eTestimonio\u003c\/i\u003e and the Future without Excision\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. \u003ci\u003eExorcinema\u003c\/i\u003e: Spectral Transitions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Literary Restoration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. An-archaeologies of 1968\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408943620439,"sku":"9781477307489","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/photopoetics-at-tlatelolco-9781477307489","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}