Journal article
Mexico, revolution and indigenous politics in D.H. Lawrence's the Plumed Serpent
- Abstract:
- Critical opinion is largely united in seeing D. H. Lawrence's novel The Plumed Serpent as a strange and troubling work, offering a puzzling synthesis of primitivism, idealized masculinity, and authoritarian politics. However, there has been little attempt to grapple with the book's Mexican setting beyond its function as site of cultural exoticism. This article argues that the cultural projects of Mexican revolutionary nationalism in the 1920s provided a key impetus for the utopian thought experiments of The Plumed Serpent. Specifically, the article contends that contemporary Mexican debates around indigenousness were absorbed by Lawrence as he prepared the novel.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 515.8KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1353/mfs.2017.0052
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- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Journal:
- MFS: Modern Fiction Studies More from this journal
- Volume:
- 63
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 674-693
- Publication date:
- 2017-12-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-11-14
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1080-658X
- ISSN:
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0026-7724
- Pubs id:
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pubs:820560
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uuid:a6672487-d7b6-4eb7-b189-21931085ca7d
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pubs:820560
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820560
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2018-01-31
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- Copyright holder:
- Purdue Research Foundation by Johns Hopkins University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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Copyright © 2017 for the Purdue Research
Foundation by Johns Hopkins University Press. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Johns Hopkins University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2017.0052
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