Impossible domesticity : travels in Mexico / Leila Gómez ; translated by Robert Weis.

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"Travelers from Europe, North, and South America often perceive Mexico as a mythical place onto which they project their own cultures' desires, fears, and anxieties. Gómez argues that Mexico's role in these narratives was not passive and that the environment, peoples, ruins, political revolutions, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Main Author: Gómez, Leila (Author)
Other Authors: Weis, Robert, 1971- (Translator)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Spanish
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Series:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subjects:
Travelers' writings > History and criticism.
Mexico > Description and travel.
Travel.
Travelers' writings.
Mexico.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Physical Description:ix, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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