TY - BOOK AU - Steinberg,Samuel TI - Photopoetics at Tlatelolco: Afterimages of Mexico, 1968 SN - 9781477307496 AV - F1386.4.T597 S74 2016 U1 - 972/.530831 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Austin : PB - University of Texas Press, KW - Documentary films KW - Mexico KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Mexican literature KW - History and criticism KW - Student movements KW - Mexico City KW - Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico City, Mexico, 1968 KW - HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Archive and Event --; 2. Postponed Images --; 3. Testimonio and the Future without Excision --; 4. Exorcinema --; 5. Literary Restoration --; 6. An-archaeologies of 1968 --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - In 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, Photopoetics at Tlatelolco 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. Examining 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, Photopoetics at Tlatelolco provides a powerful new model for understanding the intersection of political history and cultural memory UR - https://doi.org/10.7560/305485 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477307496 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477307496/original ER -