RT Article
T1 Postcards in the Porfirian Imaginary
JF Social justice
VO 34
IS 1
SP 141
OP 154
A1 Osorio, Alejandra Betilde 1956-
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157309
AB Part of a special issue on the relationship between art, identity, and social justice. The writer examines the development of postcards during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz in Mexico, 1877–1911. She observes that the postcards produced in Mexico during this period contained definitively ideological content and helped to solidify national consciousness toward the end of the 19th century, during the consolidation of the Mexican state; they reflect the edifying feeling of a culture and nation that succeeded in structuring a national discourse centered around the notion of progress. However, she notes, at the same time, foreign photographers and editors created popular representations of Mexico and Mexicans, in which they depicted the “traditional” culture as premodern.
K1 Díaz, Porfirio, 1830-1915
K1 Mexicans in literature
K1 Social Impact
K1 Dictatorship
K1 Mass media -- Social aspects
K1 Mass media & social integration
K1 Postal stationery
K1 Postcards
K1 Nationalism -- History
K1 Mexican history, 1867-1910
K1 Mexican art