Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: Mexico, now the United States' summer playground, once represented a season of revolutionary fascination, primitivism, and social hope to modernist and radical activists, artists, and writers.From the 1920s to the late 1940s, Mexico constituted for many foreigners a season of the kind evoked by modernist poet Wallace Stevens when he spoke of an essence of summer that could rejuvenate the self and recover peace, permanence, and intellectual concord: a summer to "fill the foliage with arrested peace, / Joy of such permanence, right ignorance / Of change still possible.Exile desire / for what is not.This is the barrenness / Of the fertile 224
Source: Latin American Research Review
Author: Mauricio Tenorio Trillo
Institution: The University of Texas at Austin
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4313020004