Author: Jeffrey W. Rubin
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: juchitã¡n, mexico, democracy, radicalism, regime, ethnicity, decentering
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0822320630
ISBN-13: 9780822320630

Since 1989 an indigenous political movement—the Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus (COCEI)—has governed the southern Mexican city of Juchitán. In Decentering the Regime, Jeffrey W. Rubin examines this Zapotec Indian movement and shows how COCEI forged an unprecedented political and cultural path—overcoming oppression in the 1970s to achieve democracy in the 1990s. Rubin traces the history and rise to power of this grassroots movement, and describes a Juchitán that exists in substantial autonomy from the central Mexican government and Mexican nationalism—there

Author: Silvio Gaggi
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: fiction, penn, media, studies, american, contemporary, electronic, visual, decentering, hypertext, subject, film, text, arts
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0812216776
ISBN-13: 9780812216776

It is a tenet of postmodern writing that the subject—the self—is unstable, fragmented, and decentered. One useful way to examine this principle is to look at how the subject has been treated in various media in the premodern, modern, and postmodern eras. Silvio Gaggi pursues this strategy in From Text to Hypertext, analyzing the issue of subject construction and deconstruction in selected examples of visual art, literature, film, and electronic media. Gaggi concentrates on a few paradigmatic works in each chapter; he contrasts van Eyck’s Wedding of Arnolfini with the photography of C