I Speak of the City：Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

作者: Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

出版社: University Of Chicago Press

出版时间: 2012-02

ISBN: 9780226792712

装帧: 其他

页数: 528页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>文学

In this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today.

Through a kaleidoscope of expository forms, I Speak of the City connects the realms of literature, architecture, music, popular language, art, and public health to investigate the city in a variety of contexts: as a living history textbook, as an expression of the state, as a modernist capital, as a laboratory, and as language. Tenorio’s formal imagination allows the reader to revel in the free-flowing richness of his narratives, opening startling new vistas onto the urban experience.

From art to city planning, from epidemiology to poetry, this book challenges the conventional wisdom about both Mexico City and the turn-of-the-century world to which it belonged. And by engaging directly with the rise of modernism and the cultural experiences of such personalities as Hart Crane, Mina Loy, and Diego Rivera, I Speak of the City will find an enthusiastic audience across the disciplines. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo is professor of history at the University of Chicago, and associate professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico City. He is the author of Mexico at the World’s Fairs and other books. Acknowledgments
Note on Translations
Introduction
PART I. RIGHT AROUND 1910…
1 On 1910 and the City of the Centennial
2 On 1910 Contrasts: Washington and Mexico City
3 Interiors
PART II. 1919
4 In and Around 1919 Mexico City
PART III. THE BROWN ATLANTIS
5 The Brown Atlantis
6 Transparency
PART IV. ODALISQUE-MANIA
7 Japan
8 India
PART V. SCIENCE AND CITY
9 Science and the City, Stories from the Sidewalk
10 On Lice, Rats, and Mexicans
PART VI. LANGUAGE
11 Whispers
12 The Street Muse
Final Word
Archives Cited
Notes
Index
内容简介:
In this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today.

Through a kaleidoscope of expository forms, I Speak of the City connects the realms of literature, architecture, music, popular language, art, and public health to investigate the city in a variety of contexts: as a living history textbook, as an expression of the state, as a modernist capital, as a laboratory, and as language. Tenorio’s formal imagination allows the reader to revel in the free-flowing richness of his narratives, opening startling new vistas onto the urban experience.

From art to city planning, from epidemiology to poetry, this book challenges the conventional wisdom about both Mexico City and the turn-of-the-century world to which it belonged. And by engaging directly with the rise of modernism and the cultural experiences of such personalities as Hart Crane, Mina Loy, and Diego Rivera, I Speak of the City will find an enthusiastic audience across the disciplines.
作者简介:
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo is professor of history at the University of Chicago, and associate professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico City. He is the author of Mexico at the World’s Fairs and other books.
目录:
Acknowledgments
Note on Translations
Introduction
PART I. RIGHT AROUND 1910…
1 On 1910 and the City of the Centennial
2 On 1910 Contrasts: Washington and Mexico City
3 Interiors
PART II. 1919
4 In and Around 1919 Mexico City
PART III. THE BROWN ATLANTIS
5 The Brown Atlantis
6 Transparency
PART IV. ODALISQUE-MANIA
7 Japan
8 India
PART V. SCIENCE AND CITY
9 Science and the City, Stories from the Sidewalk
10 On Lice, Rats, and Mexicans
PART VI. LANGUAGE
11 Whispers
12 The Street Muse
Final Word
Archives Cited
Notes
Index

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