Serial Mexico

Storytelling Across Media, From Nationhood to Now
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-8265-0562-0
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Critical Mexican Studies

Serial Mexico responds to a continued need to historicize and contextualize seriality, particularly as it exists outside of dominant U.S./European contexts. In Mexico, serialization has been an important feature of narrative since the birth of the nation. Amy Wright’s exploration begins with a study of novels serialized in pamphlets and newspapers by key Mexican authors of the nineteenth century, showing that serialization was essential to the development of both the novel and national identities—to Mexican popular culture—during its foundational period. In the twentieth century, a technological explosion after the Mexican Revolution (1910–20) set Mexico’s transmedial wheels into motion, as a variety of media recycled and repurposed earlier serialized tales, themselves drawn from a repertoire of oral traditions to national nostalgic effect.
 
Along the way, Serial Mexico responds to the following series of questions: How has serialized storytelling functioned in Mexico? How can we better understand the relationship of seriality to transmediality through this historical case study? Which stories (characters, themes, storylines, and storyworlds) have circulated repeatedly over time? How have those stories defined Mexico? The goal of this book is to begin to understand some of the possible answers to these questions through five case studies, which highlight five key artifacts, in five different media, at five different historical points spanning nearly two hundred years of Mexico’s history. Serial Mexico 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.

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Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Nation as Family in Mexico’s First Novel: Lizardi’s Periquillo (1816) as Pamphlets
- 2.Back to the Future: Mexico as Serial Hero in Riva Palacio’s Historical Novels (1868–1873)
- 3.Family Education through Mexico’s First Comic:Don Catarino y su apreciable familia (1920s–1960s)
- 4. Mexican Radionovelas’ Serial “Stay Tuned”: Announcing. ¡Chucho el Roto! (ca. 1965–1975)
- 5. History’s Eternal Return in Televisa’s Telenovelas:MartÍn Garatuza (1986) and El extraÑo retorno de Diana Salazar (1988–1989)
ContinuarÁ • To Be Continued
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index