Serial Mexico: Storytelling Across Media, From Nationhood to Now by Amy E. Wrigh

Description: Serial Mexico by Amy E. Wright Offers important insights into not only the topic of serialized storytelling, but to larger notions of how national identities are created through narrative, with crucial cultural and sometimes political implications. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description No book until now has tied in two centuries of Mexican serial narratives—striking tales of glory, of fame, of colorful epic characters, grounded in oral folklore—with their subsequent retelling in comics, radio, and television soap operas. Amy Wrights colorful multidisciplinary Serial Mexico delves deep into this rich national storytelling tradition for the first time: examining nostalgic tales told and reimagined from popular novelas to radionovelas then telenovelas and onwards, examining the enduring foundational figures woven into the very fabric of society, from the countrys beginnings into the twenty-first century. This panoramic view offers a glimpse into how the Mexican people have experienced their stories from the countrys early days until now, showcasing a penchant for protagonists that mock authority, that make light of hierarchy, that embrace the hybridity and mestizaje of Mexico itself. These tales vividly reflect and respond to a variety of crucial cultural concerns such as family, patriarchy, gender roles, racial mixing, urbanization, modernization and political idealism. Serial Mexico shows clearly how serialized storytellings mix of melodrama and sensationalism was not devoid of revealing political and cultural messaging. In a detailed yet accessible style, Wright highlights how these stories and concerns have continued to morph, along with changing social media, into current times. Will these tropes and traditions carry on within new and reimagined serial storytelling forms? Only time will tell. Stay tuned for the next surprising episode. Author Biography Amy Wright is an associate professor of Hispanic studies at Saint Louis University. Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Nation as Family in Mexicos First Novel: Lizardis Periquillo (1816) as Pamphlets2.Back to the Future: Mexico as Serial Hero in Riva Palacios Historical Novels (1868–1873)3.Family Education through Mexicos First Comic:Don Catarino y su apreciable familia (1920s–1960s)4. Mexican Radionovelas Serial "Stay Tuned": Announcing . . . ¡Chucho el Roto! (ca. 1965–1975)5. Historys Eternal Return in Televisas Telenovelas:MartÍn Garatuza (1986) and El extraÑo retorno de Diana Salazar (1988–1989)ContinuarÁ • To Be ContinuedNotesBibliographyIndex Review Once in a blue moon, a scholarly work drops that upends what we know in the humanities. Serial Mexico is this—and more. Gorgeous, lively prose serves up sophisticated, smart scholarship that radically reorients us toward Mexicos deep and rich transmedia history. Wrights edge-of-seat odyssey takes us far back into Mexicos history of storytelling, as well as all subsequent instances of cross-media proliferation and pollination. From astute analyses of early-nineteenth-century popular serialized stories to twentieth-century comics, radionovelas, and telenovelas, Wright does with Serial Mexico what Jenkins did with Convergence Culture, but with one colossal difference: Wright aptly anchors Transmedial Studies in the Global South." —Frederick Luis Aldama, author of Mex-CinÉ: Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century"Propelled by its colorful subject matter and Wrights artful analysis, Serial Mexico is a groundbreaking meditation on how Mexican mass media addresses memory, national identity, and formula storytelling. Packed with illustrations and forgotten cultural histories, this is a major contribution to Mexican and Latin American Studies." —Christopher Conway, author of Heroes of the Borderlands: The Western in Mexican Film, Comics, and Music"Serial Mexico belongs to a critical continuum, guided by Walter Benjamins The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Benedict Andersons Imagined Communities, and Doris Sommers Foundational Fictions, that studies modern national identity. As befits this lineage, Serial Mexico concerns itself with family romance (and domestication) as national allegory." —John A. Ochoa, author of The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity Review Quote " Serial Mexico belongs to a critical continuum, guided by Benjamins "Age of mechanical reproduction", Benedict Andersons Imagined Communities, Doris Sommers Foundational Fictions, that studies modern national identity. As befits this lineage, Serial Mexico concerns itself with family romance (and domestication) as national allegory. -- John A. Ochoa , author of The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity Details ISBN0826505619 Author Amy E. Wright Short Title Serial Mexico Publisher Vanderbilt University Press Series Critical Mexican Studies Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 0826505619 ISBN-13 9780826505613 Format Paperback Imprint Vanderbilt University Press Place of Publication Tennessee Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2023-06-15 NZ Release Date 2023-06-15 UK Release Date 2023-06-15 Subtitle Storytelling Across Media, From Nationhood to Now Publication Date 2023-06-30 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2023-06-30 DEWEY 863.009 Pages 302 Illustrations 71 b&w images We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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