The University of Arizona Press

In "Forging a Mexican People," scholar Pablo Zavala shows how illustrated print culture helped to construct and deconstruct versions of “a people” in postrevolutionary Mexico. The author demonstrates how print culture provided alternative—sometimes contradictory—collective subjectivities that challenged hegemonic conceptions of a so-called national people in the formative years of the Mexican state. Today he offers an inside look at some of the art from his new work.