{"product_id":"photopoetics-at-tlatelolco-samuel-steinberg-9781477307489","title":"Photopoetics at Tlatelolco: Afterimages of Mexico, 1968","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the months leading up to the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City, students took to the streets, calling for greater democratization and decrying crackdowns on political resistance by the ruling PRI party. During a mass meeting held at the Plaza of the Three Cultures in the Tlatelolco neighborhood, paramilitary forces opened fire on the gathering. The death toll from the massacre remains a contested number, ranging from an official count in the dozens to estimates in the hundreds by journalists and scholars. Rereading the legacy of this tragedy through diverse artistic-political interventions across the decades, \u003ci\u003ePhotopoetics at Tlatelolco\u003c\/i\u003e explores the state's dual repression--both the massacre's crushing effects on the movement and the manipulation of cultural discourse and political thought in the aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining artifacts ranging from documentary photography and testimony to poetry, essays, chronicles, cinema, literary texts, video, and performance, Samuel Steinberg considers the broad photographic and photopoetic nature of modern witnessing as well as the specific elements of light (gunfire, flares, camera flashes) that ultimately defined the massacre. Steinberg also demonstrates the ways in which the labels of \"massacre\" and \"sacrifice\" inform contemporary perceptions of the state's blatant and violent repression of unrest. With implications for similar processes throughout the rest of Latin America from the 1960s to the present day, \u003ci\u003ePhotopoetics at Tlatelolco\u003c\/i\u003e provides a powerful new model for understanding the intersection of political history and cultural memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel Steinberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477307486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477307489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Samuel Steinberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44065871560959,"sku":"9781477307489","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8a447ad3-6aa4-4c3c-a4c9-535f7f64bf91.jpg?v=1685403988","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/photopoetics-at-tlatelolco-samuel-steinberg-9781477307489","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}