{"product_id":"mexicos-ruins-raul-rodriguez-hernandez-9780791469446","title":"Mexico's Ruins: Juan García Ponce and the Writing of Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores the trope of modernity in García Ponce's writings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt face value, the concept of modernity seems to reference a stream of social and historical traffic headed down a utopian one-way street named \"progress.\" \u003ci\u003eMexico's Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e examines modernity in twentieth-century Mexican culture as a much more ambiguous concept, arguing that such a single-minded notion is inadequate to comprehend the complexity of modern Mexico's national projects and their reception by the nation's citizenry. Instead, through the trope of modernity as ruin, author Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández explores the dilemma presented by the etymology of \"ruins\" a simultaneous falling down and rising up, a confluence of opposing forces at work on the skyline of the metropolis since 1968. He focuses on artists and writers of the generación de medio siglo, like Juan García Ponce, and envisions both the tales of modernity and their storytellers in a new light. The arts, literature, and architecture of twentieth-century Mexico are all examined in this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791469441\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791469446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.41w x 0.56d","brand":"Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096728871167,"sku":"9780791469446","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mexicos-ruins-raul-rodriguez-hernandez-9780791469446","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}