| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.5

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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

Serge Gruzinski. The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization. Translated by Deke Dusinberre. New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. 266. $22.95.

Serge Gruzinski crosscuts images and poetry of colonial Mexico with avant-garde cinema: scenes of Wong Kar-Wai's temporally unstable movies and Peter Greenaway's lurid and spectacular films. His aim is to show that the "mestizo phenomenon" that we encounter in the postmodern era, where cultures intermingle and wherein there is a "constant cracking open, shattering, and enriching of the genre—along with compromises, reconfigurations, and reinterpretations" (p. 201), offers illuminating parallels to the visual and poetic products of the conquered and colonized Amerindian world. An imaginative scholar and gifted writer, Gruzinski goes beyond making the sixteenth century accessible: he makes it hip. This is the kind of book that professors will find their students have read before they do.

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