Serial Mexico - Storytelling Across Media, From Nationhood to Now (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Vanderbilt University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Mexican Studies
Release date:	June 2023
Authors:	Amy E Wright
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-8265-0561-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-8265-0561-9
Barcode:	9780826505613

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