Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture
"Eric Zolov'sRefried Elvisis an innovative, perceptive and empirically rich contribution to the cultural history of transnationalism.  It is also a work that focuses on an aspect of Mexican history that has been treated almost exclusively by writers and journalists and that had not made its mark in historical discussions until now.  Mexican nationalist obsessions with historical roots - with the Revolution, the Conquest, and the saga of the mestizo - have too often coincided with the American and European penchant for emphasizing only what is exotic or quaint.  The politics of the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s, with its ambivalent relation to Americanization, to modernization, and to indigenous societies provides an exemplary antidote to the tedious and seemingly interminable repetition of these hopelessly outdated national images." --Claudio Lomnitz, author ofExits from the Labyrinth--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.