Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 303 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0816643075
,
0816643083
,
0816666245
,
9780816643073
,
9780816643080
,
9780816666249
Content:
The onset of the Cold War in the 1940s and 1950s precipitated the exile of many U.S. writers, artists, and filmmakers to Mexico. Rebecca M. Schreiber illuminates the work of these cultural exiles in Mexico City and Cuernavaca and reveals how their artistic collaborations formed a vital and effective culture of resistance. As Schreiber recounts, the first exiles to arrive in Mexico after World War II were visual artists, many of them African-American, including Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White, and John Wilson. Individuals who were blacklisted from the Hollywood film industry, such as Dalton Tr
Content:
Routes elsewhere : the formation of U.S. exile communities in Mexico -- The politics of form : African American artists and the making of transnational aesthetics -- Allegories of exile : political refugees and resident imperialists -- Audience and affect : divergent economies of representation and place -- Unpacking leisure : tourism, racialization, and the publishing industry -- Exile and after exile
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-279) and index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0816643075
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0816643083
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816643073
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816643080
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Schreiber, Rebecca Mina Cold War exiles in Mexico Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008
Language:
English
URL:
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Author information:
Schreiber, Rebecca Mina
