Funerals, Festivals, and Cultural Politics in Porfirian Mexico

by Esposito, Matthew D.

• ISBN13: 9780826348838
• ISBN10: 0826348831
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

During the long dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, from 1876 to 1911, Esposito asserts that Mexico gained both national pride and its international personality due to Diaz's reliance on memorialism, death and ceremony. Porfirian state constructed dozens of national monuments, performed countless commemorations, and held 110 state funerals. These magisterial displays of state power created an aura of legitimacy that helped the eight term dictator stay in power.

Author Biography

Matthew D. Esposito is associate professor and chair of the History Department at Drake University. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews on Mexican cultural history.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. ix
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Chronology of National Commemorations in Porfirian Mexico	p. xvii
Introduction: Memory, Hegemony, and Cultural Politics in Porfirian Mexico	p. 1
Death and the Maiden of Progress	p. 21
The Politics of Death: State Funerals as Rites of Reconciliation, 1876-89	p. 53
Reviving the Dead: Holiday Commemorations in Porfirian Mexico	p. 83
The Only Show in Town: State Funerals in the Heyday of Modernization, 1890-1911	p. 113
"The Exalted Trinity of Our National Religion": The Memorialization of Juárez, Hidalgo, Díaz, and Other Mexican Heroes	p. 145
Heroes Laid to Rest, the Past Exhumed: Pantheonizations of the Independence Heroes	p. 177
Conclusion: Requiem of the Regime: "Sobre las Olas" the Centenario of 1910, and the Mexican Revolution	p. 203
State Funerals, 1878-1910	p. 213
State Reburials, 1881-1909	p. 217
Heroes Buried in the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres	p. 219
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