{"id":779,"date":"2020-08-20T15:54:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T20:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/?p=779"},"modified":"2020-08-20T15:55:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T20:55:10","slug":"dr-jose-carreno-medina-publishes-el-mexico-ausente-en-octavio-paz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/2020\/08\/20\/dr-jose-carreno-medina-publishes-el-mexico-ausente-en-octavio-paz\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jos\u00e9 Carre\u00f1o Medina publishes El M\u00e9xico ausente en Octavio Paz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the fall semester of 2019, Dr. Jos\u00e9 Carre\u00f1o Medina completed the manuscript of an academic book entitled\u00a0<em>El M\u00e9xico ausente en Octavio Paz<\/em>, which has been recently published in Spain by Iberoamericana\/Vervuert (August 2020). Using post-colonial and trans-modern literary theories, Dr. Carre\u00f1o Medina analyzes the historical and political process of how the\u00a0<em>mestizaje<\/em>\u00a0discourse articulated by Octavio Paz understands indigenous civilization in Mexico as a mythical and psychological construct. While Paz sees the indigenous culture and its non-occidental traditions as a mythical trauma that restrains progress towards a contemporary democracy, Dr. Carre\u00f1o Medina argues that indigenous peoples have been excluded as part of the national project built by the Mexican intelligentsia since the period of independence in the early nineteenth-century and, above all, from the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917) until the last decade of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iberoamericana-vervuert.es\/FichaLibro.aspx?P1=176476\">https:\/\/www.iberoamericana-vervuert.es\/FichaLibro.aspx?P1=176476<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the fall semester of 2019, Dr. Jos\u00e9 Carre\u00f1o Medina completed the manuscript of an academic book entitled\u00a0El M\u00e9xico ausente en Octavio Paz, which has been recently published in Spain by Iberoamericana\/Vervuert (August 2020). Using post-colonial and trans-modern literary theories, Dr. Carre\u00f1o Medina analyzes the historical and political process of how the\u00a0mestizaje\u00a0discourse articulated by Octavio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}