{"product_id":"the-eagle-and-the-virgin-9780822336570","title":"The Eagle and the Virgin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollection of essays focusing on cultural policy and production after the Mexican revolution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Eagle and the Virgin\u003c\/i\u003e is a necessary book, a selection of essays which allows readers to see in detail how a nation is invented and reinvented, how it experiences its achievements and its customs, both the good and the bad; and how it is internationalized and nationalized (since by 1940 Mexico was both a more cosmopolitan country and a more Mexican one). A delightful work.”—\u003cb\u003eCarlos Monsiváis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Steeped in a generation of new cultural and transnational analysis of state formation and popular expression, \u003ci\u003eThe Eagle and the Virgin\u003c\/i\u003e raises the bar for studies of nation building and cultural politics in postrevolutionary Mexico. Particularly impressive is the volume’s sensitive analysis of contests over religious culture and symbols, its gendered understanding of state formation, and its handsomely illustrated treatment of the development of a Mexican revolutionary aesthetic.”—\u003cb\u003eGilbert M. Joseph\u003c\/b\u003e, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The 16 essays that Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen E. Lewis have compiled here inventively probe and synthesize the synergistic processes of nation building and cultural revolution that characterized Mexico in the period from 1920 to 1940. . . . The vibrancy and variety of these essays remind us that culture is integral to any analysis of this crucial period in the formation of Mexican national identity, because Mexico’s cultural revolution is so inimitable in its many contested manifestations. As this volume demonstrates, its very creativity and inconsistency are fundamental to understanding the complexity of the interactions that took place between the state and popular sectors.” -- Susan M. Deeds * Hispanic American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations xii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen E. Lewis 1\u003cbr\u003e I. The Aesthetics of Nation Building \u003cbr\u003e The Noche Mexicana and the Exhibition of Popular Arts:\u003cbr\u003eTwo Ways of Exalting Indianness \/ Rick A. Lopez 23\u003cbr\u003e The Sickle, the Serpent, and the Soil: History, Revolution, Nationhood, and Modernity in the Murals of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros \/ Desmond Rochfort 43\u003cbr\u003e Painting in the Shadow of the Big Three \u003cbr\u003e Frida Kahlo \/ Sarah M. Lowe 53\u003cbr\u003e Maria Izquierdo \/ Adrianna Zavala 67\u003cbr\u003e The Mexican Experience of Marion and Grace Greenwood \/ James Oles 79\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMestizaje \u003c\/i\u003eand Musical Nationalism in Mexico\/ Marco Velazquez and Mary Kay Vaughan 95\u003cbr\u003e Revolution in the City Streets: Changing Nomenclature, Changing Form, and the Revision of Public Memory \/ Patrice Elizabeth Olsen 119\u003cbr\u003e II. Utopian Projects of the State \u003cbr\u003e Saints, Sinners, and the State Formation: Local Religion and Cultural Revolution in Mexico \/ Adrian A. Bantjes 137\u003cbr\u003e Nationalizing the Countryside: Schools and Rural Communities in the 1930’s \/ Mary Kay Vaughan 157\u003cbr\u003e The Nation, Education, and the “Indian Problem” in Mexico, 1920–1940 \/ Stephen E. Lewis 176\u003cbr\u003e For the Health of the Nation: Gender and the Cultural Politics of Social Hygiene in Revolutionary Mexico \/ Katherine E. Bliss 196\u003cbr\u003e III. Mass Communication and Nation Building \u003cbr\u003e Remapping Identities: Road Construction and Nation Building in Postrevolutionary Mexico \/ Wendy Waters 221\u003cbr\u003e National Imaginings on the Air: Radio in Mexico, 1920–1950 \/ Joy Elizabeth Hayes 243\u003cbr\u003e Screening the Nation \/ Joanne Hershfield 259\u003cbr\u003e IV. Social Construction of Nations \u003cbr\u003e An Idea of Mexico: Catholics in the Revolution \/ Jean Meyer 281\u003cbr\u003e Guadalajaran Women and the Construction of National Identity \/ Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves 297\u003cbr\u003e “We Are All Mexicans Here”: Workers, Patriotism, and Union Struggles in Monterrey \/ Michael Snodgrass 314\u003cbr\u003e Final Reflections: What Was Mexico’s Cultural Revolution? \/ Claudio Lomnitz 335\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 351\u003cbr\u003e Index 357\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138190704983,"sku":"9780822336570","price":132.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822336570.jpg?v=1751918371","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-eagle-and-the-virgin-9780822336570","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}