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New York Public Library - Cullman Center presents
The Romance Of It All: Three Aspects Of Latin America: Part Three
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
How to Be Mexican: An Instruction Manual in Music and Song Presented as the Joanna Jackson Goldman Lectures in association with Harvard University Press
Length: 1 hr 30 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
Mexicans have been governed by a false dichotomy for decades in their relationship with the United States, one that asserts that it is not possible to be modern and Mexican at the same time. In her final talk, Guillermoprieto discusses the destructive nature of this prevailing national logic, and uses contemporary Mexican music to illuminate changing notions of Mexican identity and the rich border territories that can exist between traditional culture and the cult of modernity.
Alma Guillermoprieto is an award-winning journalist who has written about Latin America for more than twenty years. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker, Guillermoprieto covered the insurrection against Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua for the Guardian and broke the story of the massacre at El Mozote for the Washington Post. She is the author of four books: Samba, an account of the year she spent with the impoverished carnival-makers of Brazil that was nominated for the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award; The Heart That Bleeds; and Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America. Her latest book is Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution. Her work has been honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, a George Polk Award, and a Nieman Fellowship (Harvard University), among other awards, and she is a co-founder of the Fundacion Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano/ New Journalism Foundation, in Colombia. |
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