Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1525/msem.2021.37.2.315
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo
{"title":"Review: In the Mean Time: Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition, by Erin Murrah-Mandril","authors":"Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo","doi":"10.1525/msem.2021.37.2.315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2021.37.2.315","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44006,"journal":{"name":"MEXICAN STUDIES-ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86160824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1525/msem.2021.37.2.318
John G. Mraz
{"title":"Review: The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage: Intellectuals and Film in the Twentieth Century, by Adela Pineda Franco","authors":"John G. Mraz","doi":"10.1525/msem.2021.37.2.318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2021.37.2.318","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44006,"journal":{"name":"MEXICAN STUDIES-ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81467550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1525/msem.2021.37.2.290
Angel M. Díaz-Dávalos
Narconarratives often portray drug-trafficking culture through an “us versus them” or “friend versus enemy” Manicheism. This dichotomy erases the role of the government in the history of narcoviolence and reproduces a formulaic and a marketable “good versus evil” distinction commonly found throughout the Mexican literary field. In this article, I analyze two short stories that deconstruct this narrative, “Z” (Julián Herbert) and “Hombres armados” (Daniel Espartaco Sánchez), from the collection Narcocuentos. I approach these stories through the concept of biopolitics, emphasizing the relationship between state and (il)legal violence(s), as well as the authors’ positions in the literary field. These stories reframe the friend-versus-enemy rhetoric, offering unidentifiable perpetrators and victims instead. Moreover, they challenge the hegemonic discourse by using two figures that thrive at the boundaries between life and death: the zombie and the homo sacer. However, the anthology’s failure to attract a wide readership reveals that Herbert’s and Espartaco Sánchez’s attempts to subvert the traditional drug-trafficking “grand narrative” has not been commercially successful in challenging the deeply engrained us-versus-them Manicheism.
{"title":"Tales of (Self-)Destruction","authors":"Angel M. Díaz-Dávalos","doi":"10.1525/msem.2021.37.2.290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2021.37.2.290","url":null,"abstract":"Narconarratives often portray drug-trafficking culture through an “us versus them” or “friend versus enemy” Manicheism. This dichotomy erases the role of the government in the history of narcoviolence and reproduces a formulaic and a marketable “good versus evil” distinction commonly found throughout the Mexican literary field. In this article, I analyze two short stories that deconstruct this narrative, “Z” (Julián Herbert) and “Hombres armados” (Daniel Espartaco Sánchez), from the collection Narcocuentos. I approach these stories through the concept of biopolitics, emphasizing the relationship between state and (il)legal violence(s), as well as the authors’ positions in the literary field. These stories reframe the friend-versus-enemy rhetoric, offering unidentifiable perpetrators and victims instead. Moreover, they challenge the hegemonic discourse by using two figures that thrive at the boundaries between life and death: the zombie and the homo sacer. However, the anthology’s failure to attract a wide readership reveals that Herbert’s and Espartaco Sánchez’s attempts to subvert the traditional drug-trafficking “grand narrative” has not been commercially successful in challenging the deeply engrained us-versus-them Manicheism.","PeriodicalId":44006,"journal":{"name":"MEXICAN STUDIES-ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84299419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1525/MSEM.2021.37.1.123
M. Caicedo
Abstract:En este artículo se analizan algunos factores que influyen en los bajos niveles de malestar psicológico entre inmigrantes mexicanos en Estados Unidos. Para ese propósito, usamos las representaciones sociales como una perspectiva teórico-metodológica, constatando que los niveles de malestar psicológico entre este colectivo son menores que entre sus coterráneos en México. Asimismo, encontramos que los inmigrantes tienen una idea general sobre la ansiedad y depresión, asignándoles una connotación negativa. Estos aspectos, aunados a los objetivos económicos de su proyecto migratorio, son algunos de los factores que explicarían los menores niveles de autoreporte de malestar psicológico en los inmigrantes mexicanos en ese país.Abstract:This article analyzes some factors that account for the low levels of psychological distress among Mexican immigrants in the United States. To this end, we use social representations as a theoretical-methodological approach, noting that the levels of psychological distress among this group in Chicago are lower than among a comparable group of Mexicans in Mexico City. Likewise, we find that Mexican immigrants have a general understanding about anxiety and depression, assigning them a negative connotation. These perceptions, along with their economic goals as immigrants, are some of the factors that explain the lower levels of self-report of psychological distress commonly found among Mexican immigrants in the United States.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1525/MSEM.2021.37.1.157
Ellynn Loftus
{"title":"Review: Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico, by Beth C. Caldwell","authors":"Ellynn Loftus","doi":"10.1525/MSEM.2021.37.1.157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/MSEM.2021.37.1.157","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44006,"journal":{"name":"MEXICAN STUDIES-ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS","volume":"37 1","pages":"157-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47716135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1525/MSEM.2021.37.1.163
Catherine Cosette Chi Güemez
{"title":"Review: La lengua literaria mexicana: de la Independencia a la Revolución (1816–1920), by Rafael Olea Franco","authors":"Catherine Cosette Chi Güemez","doi":"10.1525/MSEM.2021.37.1.163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/MSEM.2021.37.1.163","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44006,"journal":{"name":"MEXICAN STUDIES-ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS","volume":"37 1","pages":"163-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46666888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1525/MSEM.2021.37.1.93
Mónica Unda Gutiérrez
This paper analyzes the roles played by the legislative, executive, and business sector in Mexico’s 2013 tax reform, drawing on original field-research findings. I examine each of these actors’ influence over the public period of congressional debate, as well as the typically invisible agenda-setting stage and the adoption of executive decrees following the legislative process. I find that Congress remains subordinated to the executive in budgetary matters and that business is more central in shaping the details of the tax bill. The tax reform achieved little, leaving the overall fiscal capacity of the Mexican State largely unchanged.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1525/MSEM.2021.37.1.35
J. Gerber, T. Passananti
Abstract:Speculation about the causal relationship between the US panic of 1907 and the Mexican Revolution of 1910 has generated many hypotheses. We review the hypotheses of contemporary observers and recent historians. Our analysis begins with a timeline of events in both countries and then examines the available data for activities that are theoretically possible avenues for the international transmission of economic events, including trade and investment. Mexican wages, banking, and government debt levels are also examined for signs of stress. We conclude that the US panic and recession had little effect on revolutionary conditions in Mexico.Abstract:La especulación sobre la relación causal entre el pánico financiero estadounidense de 1907 y la Revolución mexicana de 1910 ha generado numerosas hipótesis. Examinamos estas hipótesis a la luz de observadores e historiadores actuales. Comenzamos con una revisión cronológica de eventos claves en ambos países, para posteriormente abordar datos disponibles sobre actividades que teóricamente podrían considerarse rutas para la transmisión de eventos económicos entre estos países, incluidas transacciones e inversiones financieras. Asimismo, examinamos niveles de salarios, deudas bancarias y gubernamentales con el objetivo de captar posibles indicadores de tensiones. Concluimos que este pánico financiero en Estados Unidos y la consecuente recesión tuvieron poco efecto en las condiciones revolucionarias en México.
摘要:关于1907年美国恐慌与1910年墨西哥革命之间因果关系的猜测产生了许多假设。我们回顾了当代观察家和近代历史学家的假设。我们的分析从两国事件的时间轴开始，然后检查现有的活动数据，这些活动在理论上可能是经济事件(包括贸易和投资)国际传播的途径。墨西哥的工资、银行和政府债务水平也被用来研究压力的迹象。我们的结论是，美国的恐慌和经济衰退对墨西哥的革命状况影响不大。摘要:La especulación sobre La relación因果中心el pánico financiero estadounidense de 1907 y La Revolución mexicana de 1910 ha generado numerosas hipótesis。Examinamos estas hipótesis a la luz de observadores e historiiadores actuales。《关于事件的共同意见》(revisión cronológica)、《关于事件的共同意见》(países)、《关于边界数据的共同意见》(teóricamente podrían)、《关于活动的共同意见》(transmisión)、《关于事件的共同意见》(económicos)、《关于金融的共同意见》(países)、《关于交易的共同意见》(económicos)、《关于金融的共同意见》(países)、《关于交易的共同意见》(倒转金融的共同意见)。亚细亚、检查工资水平、政府部门的银行业务、目标和可能性指标都是紧张局势的标志。结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:(1)结论:
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