Podcast appearances and mentions of rebecca janzen

When miners go underground, they enter a spiritual realm distinct from that aboveground. Across time, places, and cultures, miners have made religious observance part of their work, building shrines, making offerings, and naming places after sacred personages. What connects these practices, and how can we access the meaning behind them? The latest research of Rebecca Janzen, professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of South Carolina, addresses this cultural phenomenon as it has been manifested by miners in the Americas from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Studying cases in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and others, Janzen pulls together numerous kinds of sources, including church documents, public records, and corporate archives such as the Bethlehem Steel collection held at the Hagley Library. Janzen offers us a glimpse underground and into the hearts of miners and mining communities. In support of her work Dr. Janzen received funding from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library. For more information on our funding opportunities, and for more Hagley History Hangouts, visit us online at hagley.org.

Rebecca Janzen joins me to talk about the commonalities and differences among Latter-day Saints, Mormon fundamentalists, and Mennonites in Mexico.

On the latest episode of Mormon Book Reviews the work of Rebecca Janzen author of "Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture" is discussed. The book details the struggles Mennonites and Mormons have had with the Mexican government, post- Revolutionary land reform, the threat of drug cartels, how these communities are viewed and portrayed in the Mexican media, and some unusual Mennonite funeral practices.PatreonLink to purchase book

Today I spoke to Dr. Rebecca Janzen, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of South Carolina about her book Unholy Trinity: State Church and Film in Mexico published by the State University of New York Press 2021. She says in the Introduction that her aim is not to promote religious devotion but to research how films critically engage with their context through imagery and goes on to describe how the State in Mexico has been remarkably active in creating new institutions to train filmmakers and yet the films are critiques of the “hand that feeds them”. Through her analysis of films like Novia te vea she underlines the complexity of Mexican Catholicism, the multiple religious heritages and also how religiosity in Mexico takes important symbols from various origins –pagan – Jewish Mexican. In chapters titled “Catholicism at its Wit's end”, she analyses films teeming with priests and brothels and underlines that these films do not reflect reality as much as the politics of the field of cultural production in which President Luis Echeverría (1970-1976) competed with the Church for the attention of the Mexican film goer. With these analyses her book moves to a telling destination. Minni Sawhney is a professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Delhi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/performing-arts

Today I spoke to Dr. Rebecca Janzen, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of South Carolina about her book Unholy Trinity: State Church and Film in Mexico published by the State University of New York Press 2021. She says in the Introduction that her aim is not to promote religious devotion but to research how films critically engage with their context through imagery and goes on to describe how the State in Mexico has been remarkably active in creating new institutions to train filmmakers and yet the films are critiques of the “hand that feeds them”. Through her analysis of films like Novia te vea she underlines the complexity of Mexican Catholicism, the multiple religious heritages and also how religiosity in Mexico takes important symbols from various origins –pagan – Jewish Mexican. In chapters titled “Catholicism at its Wit's end”, she analyses films teeming with priests and brothels and underlines that these films do not reflect reality as much as the politics of the field of cultural production in which President Luis Echeverría (1970-1976) competed with the Church for the attention of the Mexican film goer. With these analyses her book moves to a telling destination. Minni Sawhney is a professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Delhi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I spoke to Dr. Rebecca Janzen, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of South Carolina about her book Unholy Trinity: State Church and Film in Mexico published by the State University of New York Press 2021. She says in the Introduction that her aim is not to promote religious devotion but to research how films critically engage with their context through imagery and goes on to describe how the State in Mexico has been remarkably active in creating new institutions to train filmmakers and yet the films are critiques of the “hand that feeds them”. Through her analysis of films like Novia te vea she underlines the complexity of Mexican Catholicism, the multiple religious heritages and also how religiosity in Mexico takes important symbols from various origins –pagan – Jewish Mexican. In chapters titled “Catholicism at its Wit's end”, she analyses films teeming with priests and brothels and underlines that these films do not reflect reality as much as the politics of the field of cultural production in which President Luis Echeverría (1970-1976) competed with the Church for the attention of the Mexican film goer. With these analyses her book moves to a telling destination. Minni Sawhney is a professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Delhi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film

Today I spoke to Dr. Rebecca Janzen, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of South Carolina about her book Unholy Trinity: State Church and Film in Mexico published by the State University of New York Press 2021. She says in the Introduction that her aim is not to promote religious devotion but to research how films critically engage with their context through imagery and goes on to describe how the State in Mexico has been remarkably active in creating new institutions to train filmmakers and yet the films are critiques of the “hand that feeds them”. Through her analysis of films like Novia te vea she underlines the complexity of Mexican Catholicism, the multiple religious heritages and also how religiosity in Mexico takes important symbols from various origins –pagan – Jewish Mexican. In chapters titled “Catholicism at its Wit's end”, she analyses films teeming with priests and brothels and underlines that these films do not reflect reality as much as the politics of the field of cultural production in which President Luis Echeverría (1970-1976) competed with the Church for the attention of the Mexican film goer. With these analyses her book moves to a telling destination. Minni Sawhney is a professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Delhi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Today I spoke to Dr. Rebecca Janzen, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of South Carolina about her book Unholy Trinity: State Church and Film in Mexico published by the State University of New York Press 2021. She says in the Introduction that her aim is not to promote religious devotion but to research how films critically engage with their context through imagery and goes on to describe how the State in Mexico has been remarkably active in creating new institutions to train filmmakers and yet the films are critiques of the “hand that feeds them”. Through her analysis of films like Novia te vea she underlines the complexity of Mexican Catholicism, the multiple religious heritages and also how religiosity in Mexico takes important symbols from various origins –pagan – Jewish Mexican. In chapters titled “Catholicism at its Wit's end”, she analyses films teeming with priests and brothels and underlines that these films do not reflect reality as much as the politics of the field of cultural production in which President Luis Echeverría (1970-1976) competed with the Church for the attention of the Mexican film goer. With these analyses her book moves to a telling destination. Minni Sawhney is a professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Delhi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today I spoke to Dr. Rebecca Janzen, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of South Carolina about her book Unholy Trinity: State Church and Film in Mexico published by the State University of New York Press 2021. She says in the Introduction that her aim is not to promote religious devotion but to research how films critically engage with their context through imagery and goes on to describe how the State in Mexico has been remarkably active in creating new institutions to train filmmakers and yet the films are critiques of the “hand that feeds them”. Through her analysis of films like Novia te vea she underlines the complexity of Mexican Catholicism, the multiple religious heritages and also how religiosity in Mexico takes important symbols from various origins –pagan – Jewish Mexican. In chapters titled “Catholicism at its Wit's end”, she analyses films teeming with priests and brothels and underlines that these films do not reflect reality as much as the politics of the field of cultural production in which President Luis Echeverría (1970-1976) competed with the Church for the attention of the Mexican film goer. With these analyses her book moves to a telling destination. Minni Sawhney is a professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Delhi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/latin-american-studies

Evangelical Steven Pynakker interviews Rebecca Janzen author of "Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture". This episode is kind of an introduction for many of my viewers to Rebecca and her fascinating work. It is part of my "up and comer's" Thursday summer interview series. In the program Rebecca details the struggles Mennonites and Mormons have had with the Mexican government, post- Revolutionary land reform, the threat of drug cartels, how these communities are viewed and portrayed in the media, and some unusual Mennonite funeral practices.Link to purchase

Unholy Trinity: State, Church, and Film in Mexico (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021) ofrece un acercamiento al cine mexicano a través de un análisis profundo de las imágenes y los símbolos religiosos que históricamente se han producido en la cinematografía desde la edad de oro en adelante. Rebecca Janzen examina películas canónicas como María Candelaria y Río Escondido de Emilio Fernández, que mitifican el pasado de México y reflexiona sobre la imaginería cinematográfica para comprender la evolución del lugar de la religión en una sociedad que se moderniza con el tiempo. Asimismo, estudia algunas películas de la década de 1970 que utilizan motivos de corrupción y sexualidad ilícita para criticar tanto a la iglesia como al estado. Finalmente, realiza un examen de algunas películas que se produjeron en las décadas de 1990 y 2000, como Novia que te vea de Guita Schyfter, cinta que retrata a las comunidades judías asquenazí y sefardí de la Ciudad de México en el siglo XX, y la controvertida película de 2002 de Carlos Carrera El crimen del padre Amaro. La autora sostiene que las imágenes religiosas, relacionadas con la iglesia católica, las interpretaciones de la gente del catolicismo y las representaciones de las comunidades judías en México hicieron posible que estas cintas se involucraran críticamente con la política, la identidad y los problemas sociales mexicanos. Rebecca Janzen es profesora asistente de español y literatura comparada en la Universidad de Carolina del Sur. Es autora de The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control y Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture, también publicados por State University of New York Press. Entrevista por Antonio Galindo, estudiante del programa de doctorado en historia de El Colegio de México.

Unholy Trinity: State, Church, and Film in Mexico (New York: State University of New York Press, 2021) ofrece un acercamiento al cine mexicano a través de un análisis profundo de las imágenes y los símbolos religiosos que históricamente se han producido en la cinematografía desde la edad de oro en adelante. Rebecca Janzen examina películas canónicas como María Candelaria y Río Escondido de Emilio Fernández, que mitifican el pasado de México, y reflexiona sobre la imaginería cinematográfica para comprender la evolución del lugar de la religión en una sociedad que se moderniza con el tiempo. Asimismo, estudia algunas películas de la década de 1970 que utilizan motivos de corrupción y sexualidad ilícita para criticar tanto a la iglesia como al estado. Finalmente, realiza un examen de algunas películas que se produjeron en las décadas de 1990 y 2000, como Novia que te vea de Guita Schyfter, cinta que retrata a las comunidades judías asquenazí y sefardí de la Ciudad de México en el siglo XX, y la controvertida película de 2002 de Carlos Carrera El crimen del padre Amaro. La autora sostiene que las imágenes religiosas, relacionadas con la iglesia católica, las interpretaciones de la gente del catolicismo y las representaciones de las comunidades judías en México, hicieron posible que estas cintas se involucraran críticamente con la política, la identidad y los problemas sociales mexicanos. Rebecca Janzen es profesora asistente de español y literatura comparada en la Universidad de Carolina del Sur. Es autora de The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control y Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture, también publicados por State University of New York Press. Entrevista por Antonio Galindo, estudiante del programa de doctorado en historia de El Colegio de México.

Unholy Trinity: State, Church, and Film in Mexico (New York: State University of New York Press, 2021) ofrece un acercamiento al cine mexicano a través de un análisis profundo de las imágenes y los símbolos religiosos que históricamente se han producido en la cinematografía desde la edad de oro en adelante. Rebecca Janzen examina películas canónicas como María Candelaria y Río Escondido de Emilio Fernández, que mitifican el pasado de México, y reflexiona sobre la imaginería cinematográfica para comprender la evolución del lugar de la religión en una sociedad que se moderniza con el tiempo. Asimismo, estudia algunas películas de la década de 1970 que utilizan motivos de corrupción y sexualidad ilícita para criticar tanto a la iglesia como al estado. Finalmente, realiza un examen de algunas películas que se produjeron en las décadas de 1990 y 2000, como Novia que te vea de Guita Schyfter, cinta que retrata a las comunidades judías asquenazí y sefardí de la Ciudad de México en el siglo XX, y la controvertida película de 2002 de Carlos Carrera El crimen del padre Amaro. La autora sostiene que las imágenes religiosas, relacionadas con la iglesia católica, las interpretaciones de la gente del catolicismo y las representaciones de las comunidades judías en México, hicieron posible que estas cintas se involucraran críticamente con la política, la identidad y los problemas sociales mexicanos. Rebecca Janzen es profesora asistente de español y literatura comparada en la Universidad de Carolina del Sur. Es autora de The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control y Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture, también publicados por State University of New York Press. Entrevista por Antonio Galindo, estudiante del programa de doctorado en historia de El Colegio de México.

Unholy Trinity: State, Church, and Film in Mexico (New York: State University of New York Press, 2021) ofrece un acercamiento al cine mexicano a través de un análisis profundo de las imágenes y los símbolos religiosos que históricamente se han producido en la cinematografía desde la edad de oro en adelante. Rebecca Janzen examina películas canónicas como María Candelaria y Río Escondido de Emilio Fernández, que mitifican el pasado de México, y reflexiona sobre la imaginería cinematográfica para comprender la evolución del lugar de la religión en una sociedad que se moderniza con el tiempo. Asimismo, estudia algunas películas de la década de 1970 que utilizan motivos de corrupción y sexualidad ilícita para criticar tanto a la iglesia como al estado. Finalmente, realiza un examen de algunas películas que se produjeron en las décadas de 1990 y 2000, como Novia que te vea de Guita Schyfter, cinta que retrata a las comunidades judías asquenazí y sefardí de la Ciudad de México en el siglo XX, y la controvertida película de 2002 de Carlos Carrera El crimen del padre Amaro. La autora sostiene que las imágenes religiosas, relacionadas con la iglesia católica, las interpretaciones de la gente del catolicismo y las representaciones de las comunidades judías en México, hicieron posible que estas cintas se involucraran críticamente con la política, la identidad y los problemas sociales mexicanos. Rebecca Janzen es profesora asistente de español y literatura comparada en la Universidad de Carolina del Sur. Es autora de The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control y Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture, también publicados por State University of New York Press. Entrevista por Antonio Galindo, estudiante del programa de doctorado en historia de El Colegio de México.

Unholy Trinity: State, Church, and Film in Mexico (New York: State University of New York Press, 2021) ofrece un acercamiento al cine mexicano a través de un análisis profundo de las imágenes y los símbolos religiosos que históricamente se han producido en la cinematografía desde la edad de oro en adelante. Rebecca Janzen examina películas canónicas como María Candelaria y Río Escondido de Emilio Fernández, que mitifican el pasado de México, y reflexiona sobre la imaginería cinematográfica para comprender la evolución del lugar de la religión en una sociedad que se moderniza con el tiempo. Asimismo, estudia algunas películas de la década de 1970 que utilizan motivos de corrupción y sexualidad ilícita para criticar tanto a la iglesia como al estado. Finalmente, realiza un examen de algunas películas que se produjeron en las décadas de 1990 y 2000, como Novia que te vea de Guita Schyfter, cinta que retrata a las comunidades judías asquenazí y sefardí de la Ciudad de México en el siglo XX, y la controvertida película de 2002 de Carlos Carrera El crimen del padre Amaro. La autora sostiene que las imágenes religiosas, relacionadas con la iglesia católica, las interpretaciones de la gente del catolicismo y las representaciones de las comunidades judías en México, hicieron posible que estas cintas se involucraran críticamente con la política, la identidad y los problemas sociales mexicanos. Rebecca Janzen es profesora asistente de español y literatura comparada en la Universidad de Carolina del Sur. Es autora de The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control y Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture, también publicados por State University of New York Press. Entrevista por Antonio Galindo, estudiante del programa de doctorado en historia de El Colegio de México.

Unholy Trinity: State, Church, and Film in Mexico (New York: State University of New York Press, 2021) ofrece un acercamiento al cine mexicano a través de un análisis profundo de las imágenes y los símbolos religiosos que históricamente se han producido en la cinematografía desde la edad de oro en adelante. Rebecca Janzen examina películas canónicas como María Candelaria y Río Escondido de Emilio Fernández, que mitifican el pasado de México, y reflexiona sobre la imaginería cinematográfica para comprender la evolución del lugar de la religión en una sociedad que se moderniza con el tiempo. Asimismo, estudia algunas películas de la década de 1970 que utilizan motivos de corrupción y sexualidad ilícita para criticar tanto a la iglesia como al estado. Finalmente, realiza un examen de algunas películas que se produjeron en las décadas de 1990 y 2000, como Novia que te vea de Guita Schyfter, cinta que retrata a las comunidades judías asquenazí y sefardí de la Ciudad de México en el siglo XX, y la controvertida película de 2002 de Carlos Carrera El crimen del padre Amaro. La autora sostiene que las imágenes religiosas, relacionadas con la iglesia católica, las interpretaciones de la gente del catolicismo y las representaciones de las comunidades judías en México, hicieron posible que estas cintas se involucraran críticamente con la política, la identidad y los problemas sociales mexicanos. Rebecca Janzen es profesora asistente de español y literatura comparada en la Universidad de Carolina del Sur. Es autora de The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control y Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture, también publicados por State University of New York Press. Entrevista por Antonio Galindo, estudiante del programa de doctorado en historia de El Colegio de México.

This week, we discuss the movie Silent Light (Stellet Licht), a movie set in an Old Colony Mennonite community in Mexico. Rebecca Janzen, author of "Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Popular Culture" and professor at the University of South Carolina, joins us as a guest to offer her expertise and help us make sense of this very slow film. 

Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture (SUNY Press, 2018) examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture. Mennonites emigrated from Canada to Mexico from the 1920s to the 1940s, and Mormons emigrated from the United States in the 1880s, left in 1912, and returned in the 1920s. Rebecca Janzen focuses on representations of these groups in film, television, online comics, photography, and legal documents. Janzen argues that perceptions of Mennonites and Mormons—groups on the margins and borders of Mexican society—illustrate broader trends in Mexican history. The government granted both communities significant exceptions to national laws to encourage them to immigrate; she argues that these foreshadow what is today called the Mexican state of exception. The groups’ inclusion into the Mexican nation shows that post-Revolutionary Mexico was flexible with its central tenets of land reform and building a mestizo race. Janzen uses minority communities at the periphery to give us a new understanding of the Mexican nation. Pamela Fuentes is an Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Pace University, NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture (SUNY Press, 2018) examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture. Mennonites emigrated from Canada to Mexico from the 1920s to the 1940s, and Mormons emigrated from the United States in the 1880s, left in 1912, and returned in the 1920s. Rebecca Janzen focuses on representations of these groups in film, television, online comics, photography, and legal documents. Janzen argues that perceptions of Mennonites and Mormons—groups on the margins and borders of Mexican society—illustrate broader trends in Mexican history. The government granted both communities significant exceptions to national laws to encourage them to immigrate; she argues that these foreshadow what is today called the Mexican state of exception. The groups’ inclusion into the Mexican nation shows that post-Revolutionary Mexico was flexible with its central tenets of land reform and building a mestizo race. Janzen uses minority communities at the periphery to give us a new understanding of the Mexican nation. Pamela Fuentes is an Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Pace University, NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture (SUNY Press, 2018) examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture. Mennonites emigrated from Canada to Mexico from the 1920s to the 1940s, and Mormons emigrated from the United States in the 1880s, left in 1912, and returned in the 1920s. Rebecca Janzen focuses on representations of these groups in film, television, online comics, photography, and legal documents. Janzen argues that perceptions of Mennonites and Mormons—groups on the margins and borders of Mexican society—illustrate broader trends in Mexican history. The government granted both communities significant exceptions to national laws to encourage them to immigrate; she argues that these foreshadow what is today called the Mexican state of exception. The groups’ inclusion into the Mexican nation shows that post-Revolutionary Mexico was flexible with its central tenets of land reform and building a mestizo race. Janzen uses minority communities at the periphery to give us a new understanding of the Mexican nation. Pamela Fuentes is an Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Pace University, NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture (SUNY Press, 2018) examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture. Mennonites emigrated from Canada to Mexico from the 1920s to the 1940s, and Mormons emigrated from the United States in the 1880s, left in 1912, and returned in the 1920s. Rebecca Janzen focuses on representations of these groups in film, television, online comics, photography, and legal documents. Janzen argues that perceptions of Mennonites and Mormons—groups on the margins and borders of Mexican society—illustrate broader trends in Mexican history. The government granted both communities significant exceptions to national laws to encourage them to immigrate; she argues that these foreshadow what is today called the Mexican state of exception. The groups’ inclusion into the Mexican nation shows that post-Revolutionary Mexico was flexible with its central tenets of land reform and building a mestizo race. Janzen uses minority communities at the periphery to give us a new understanding of the Mexican nation. Pamela Fuentes is an Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Pace University, NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture (SUNY Press, 2018) examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture. Mennonites emigrated from Canada to Mexico from the 1920s to the 1940s, and Mormons emigrated from the United States in the 1880s, left in 1912, and returned in the 1920s. Rebecca Janzen focuses on representations of these groups in film, television, online comics, photography, and legal documents. Janzen argues that perceptions of Mennonites and Mormons—groups on the margins and borders of Mexican society—illustrate broader trends in Mexican history. The government granted both communities significant exceptions to national laws to encourage them to immigrate; she argues that these foreshadow what is today called the Mexican state of exception. The groups’ inclusion into the Mexican nation shows that post-Revolutionary Mexico was flexible with its central tenets of land reform and building a mestizo race. Janzen uses minority communities at the periphery to give us a new understanding of the Mexican nation. Pamela Fuentes is an Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Pace University, NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture (SUNY Press, 2018) examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture. Mennonites emigrated from Canada to Mexico from the 1920s to the 1940s, and Mormons emigrated from the United States in the 1880s, left in 1912, and returned in the 1920s. Rebecca Janzen focuses on representations of these groups in film, television, online comics, photography, and legal documents. Janzen argues that perceptions of Mennonites and Mormons—groups on the margins and borders of Mexican society—illustrate broader trends in Mexican history. The government granted both communities significant exceptions to national laws to encourage them to immigrate; she argues that these foreshadow what is today called the Mexican state of exception. The groups’ inclusion into the Mexican nation shows that post-Revolutionary Mexico was flexible with its central tenets of land reform and building a mestizo race. Janzen uses minority communities at the periphery to give us a new understanding of the Mexican nation. Pamela Fuentes is an Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Pace University, NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture (SUNY Press, 2018) examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture. Mennonites emigrated from Canada to Mexico from the 1920s to the 1940s, and Mormons emigrated from the United States in the 1880s, left in 1912, and returned in the 1920s. Rebecca Janzen focuses on representations of these groups in film, television, online comics, photography, and legal documents. Janzen argues that perceptions of Mennonites and Mormons—groups on the margins and borders of Mexican society—illustrate broader trends in Mexican history. The government granted both communities significant exceptions to national laws to encourage them to immigrate; she argues that these foreshadow what is today called the Mexican state of exception. The groups' inclusion into the Mexican nation shows that post-Revolutionary Mexico was flexible with its central tenets of land reform and building a mestizo race. Janzen uses minority communities at the periphery to give us a new understanding of the Mexican nation. Pamela Fuentes is an Assistant Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Pace University, NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), Rebecca Janzen explores the complex interaction between the national body created by the rhetoric of the 1910 Mexican revolution and those bodies that did not find a space in the new national project. Through the literary fictional work of Jose Revueltas, Juan Rulfo, Rosario Castellanos, and Vicente Lenero, the book explores the contradictions of the state through the literary representations of people that lived at the margins of its ideology. Drawing on feminist and disability studies, Janzen explores unusual bodies—peasants, prostitutes, indigenous people, and garbage sorters, among others—and their intense relationship of control, resistance, and power with the government and its bureaucracy. In these literary works, illness, body fluids, or bodies reduced to their basic functions demonstrate the inconsistencies of a national project that failed to fulfill promises such as agrarian reform, health services or labor rights. Each chapter of the book shows an analysis deeply engaged with the profound changes of almost three decades. The characters created by Revueltas, Rulfo, Castellanos, and Lenero span from the 1940s to the end of the 1960s, which allows Janzen to show not only the construction of a national discourse and its flaws, but also its interaction with other important institutions, such as the Catholic church. Pamela Fuentes is an Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Pace University—NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), Rebecca Janzen explores the complex interaction between the national body created by the rhetoric of the 1910 Mexican revolution and those bodies that did not find a space in the new national project. Through the literary fictional work of Jose Revueltas, Juan Rulfo, Rosario Castellanos, and Vicente Lenero, the book explores the contradictions of the state through the literary representations of people that lived at the margins of its ideology. Drawing on feminist and disability studies, Janzen explores unusual bodies—peasants, prostitutes, indigenous people, and garbage sorters, among others—and their intense relationship of control, resistance, and power with the government and its bureaucracy. In these literary works, illness, body fluids, or bodies reduced to their basic functions demonstrate the inconsistencies of a national project that failed to fulfill promises such as agrarian reform, health services or labor rights. Each chapter of the book shows an analysis deeply engaged with the profound changes of almost three decades. The characters created by Revueltas, Rulfo, Castellanos, and Lenero span from the 1940s to the end of the 1960s, which allows Janzen to show not only the construction of a national discourse and its flaws, but also its interaction with other important institutions, such as the Catholic church. Pamela Fuentes is an Assistant Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Pace University—NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), Rebecca Janzen explores the complex interaction between the national body created by the rhetoric of the 1910 Mexican revolution and those bodies that did not find a space in the new national project. Through the literary fictional work of Jose Revueltas, Juan Rulfo, Rosario Castellanos, and Vicente Lenero, the book explores the contradictions of the state through the literary representations of people that lived at the margins of its ideology. Drawing on feminist and disability studies, Janzen explores unusual bodies—peasants, prostitutes, indigenous people, and garbage sorters, among others—and their intense relationship of control, resistance, and power with the government and its bureaucracy. In these literary works, illness, body fluids, or bodies reduced to their basic functions demonstrate the inconsistencies of a national project that failed to fulfill promises such as agrarian reform, health services or labor rights. Each chapter of the book shows an analysis deeply engaged with the profound changes of almost three decades. The characters created by Revueltas, Rulfo, Castellanos, and Lenero span from the 1940s to the end of the 1960s, which allows Janzen to show not only the construction of a national discourse and its flaws, but also its interaction with other important institutions, such as the Catholic church. Pamela Fuentes is an Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Pace University—NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), Rebecca Janzen explores the complex interaction between the national body created by the rhetoric of the 1910 Mexican revolution and those bodies that did not find a space in the new national project. Through the literary fictional work of Jose Revueltas, Juan Rulfo, Rosario Castellanos, and Vicente Lenero, the book explores the contradictions of the state through the literary representations of people that lived at the margins of its ideology. Drawing on feminist and disability studies, Janzen explores unusual bodies—peasants, prostitutes, indigenous people, and garbage sorters, among others—and their intense relationship of control, resistance, and power with the government and its bureaucracy. In these literary works, illness, body fluids, or bodies reduced to their basic functions demonstrate the inconsistencies of a national project that failed to fulfill promises such as agrarian reform, health services or labor rights. Each chapter of the book shows an analysis deeply engaged with the profound changes of almost three decades. The characters created by Revueltas, Rulfo, Castellanos, and Lenero span from the 1940s to the end of the 1960s, which allows Janzen to show not only the construction of a national discourse and its flaws, but also its interaction with other important institutions, such as the Catholic church. Pamela Fuentes is an Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Pace University—NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), Rebecca Janzen explores the complex interaction between the national body created by the rhetoric of the 1910 Mexican revolution and those bodies that did not find a space in the new national project. Through the literary fictional work of Jose Revueltas, Juan Rulfo, Rosario Castellanos, and Vicente Lenero, the book explores the contradictions of the state through the literary representations of people that lived at the margins of its ideology. Drawing on feminist and disability studies, Janzen explores unusual bodies—peasants, prostitutes, indigenous people, and garbage sorters, among others—and their intense relationship of control, resistance, and power with the government and its bureaucracy. In these literary works, illness, body fluids, or bodies reduced to their basic functions demonstrate the inconsistencies of a national project that failed to fulfill promises such as agrarian reform, health services or labor rights. Each chapter of the book shows an analysis deeply engaged with the profound changes of almost three decades. The characters created by Revueltas, Rulfo, Castellanos, and Lenero span from the 1940s to the end of the 1960s, which allows Janzen to show not only the construction of a national discourse and its flaws, but also its interaction with other important institutions, such as the Catholic church. Pamela Fuentes is an Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Pace University—NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), Rebecca Janzen explores the complex interaction between the national body created by the rhetoric of the 1910 Mexican revolution and those bodies that did not find a space in the new national project. Through the literary fictional work of Jose Revueltas, Juan Rulfo, Rosario Castellanos, and Vicente Lenero, the book explores the contradictions of the state through the literary representations of people that lived at the margins of its ideology. Drawing on feminist and disability studies, Janzen explores unusual bodies—peasants, prostitutes, indigenous people, and garbage sorters, among others—and their intense relationship of control, resistance, and power with the government and its bureaucracy. In these literary works, illness, body fluids, or bodies reduced to their basic functions demonstrate the inconsistencies of a national project that failed to fulfill promises such as agrarian reform, health services or labor rights. Each chapter of the book shows an analysis deeply engaged with the profound changes of almost three decades. The characters created by Revueltas, Rulfo, Castellanos, and Lenero span from the 1940s to the end of the 1960s, which allows Janzen to show not only the construction of a national discourse and its flaws, but also its interaction with other important institutions, such as the Catholic church. Pamela Fuentes is an Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Pace University—NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices