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oapen-20.500.12657-317792021-11-15T08:23:04Z Portrait of a Young Painter Vaughan, Mary Kay History Mexico Mexico City Oaxaca bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas This book adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s. Mary Kay Vaughan's chronicle of the life of painter Pepe Zúñiga counters a literature that portrays post-1940 Mexican history as a series of uprisings against state repression, injustice, and social neglect that culminated in the student protests of 1968. Rendering Zúñiga's coming of age on the margins of formal politics, Vaughan depicts midcentury Mexico City as a culture of growing prosperity, state largesse, and a vibrant, transnationally-informed public life that produced a multifaceted youth movement brimming with creativity and criticism of convention. By discussing the influences that shaped Zuniga's worldview, she historicizes the process of subject formation and shows how doing so offers new perspectives on the events of 1968. 2017-03-09 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:29 2020-04-01T13:49:11Z 2020-04-01T13:49:11Z 2014-10-01 book 625256 OCN: 1028753858 9780822376125 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31779 eng application/pdf n/a 625256.pdf Duke University Press 10.26530/oapen_625256 100326 10.26530/oapen_625256 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822376125 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Durham NC 100326 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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This book adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s. Mary Kay Vaughan's chronicle of the life of painter Pepe Zúñiga counters a literature that portrays post-1940 Mexican history as a series of uprisings against state repression, injustice, and social neglect that culminated in the student protests of 1968. Rendering Zúñiga's coming of age on the margins of formal politics, Vaughan depicts midcentury Mexico City as a culture of growing prosperity, state largesse, and a vibrant, transnationally-informed public life that produced a multifaceted youth movement brimming with creativity and criticism of convention. By discussing the influences that shaped Zuniga's worldview, she historicizes the process of subject formation and shows how doing so offers new perspectives on the events of 1968.
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