Hotel Mexico: Dwelling on the '68 Movement (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520291072)

In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The spectacular sports facilities and urban redevelopment projects built by the government in Mexico City mirrored the country's rapid but uneven modernization. In the same year, a street-savvy democratization movement led by students emerged in the city. Throughout the summer, the '68 Movement staged protests underscoring a widespread sense of political disenfranchisement. Just ten days before the Olympics began, nearly three hundred student protestors were massacred by the military in a plaza at the core of a new public housing complex.

In spite of institutional denial and censorship, the 1968 massacre remains a touchstone in contemporary Mexican culture thanks to the public memory work of survivors and Mexico's leftist intelligentsia. In this highly original study of the afterlives of the '68 Movement, George F. Flaherty explores how urban spaces--material but also literary, photographic, and cinematic--became an archive of 1968, providing a framework for de facto modes of justice for years to come.

Author: George F. Flaherty
ISBN-10: 0520291077
ISBN-13: 9780520291072
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/16/2016
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d