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Serial Mexico - Storytelling Across Media, From Nationhood to Now (Hardcover)
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Serial Mexico - Storytelling Across Media, From Nationhood to Now (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Mexican Studies
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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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