The official centenary commemorating the Mexican Revolution of 1910 led to this specially commissioned volume, which explores notions such as ‘revisitation’, haunting and memorialization through a detailed examination of Mexican art, photography, film, narrative fiction, periodicals, travel-testimonies and poetry.

Contents: ‘The Dead Letter’ by Simon Carnell – Erica Segre: Introduction: Cultural Memories of an Unquiet Past: Charting Ghosts of the Mexican Revolution in Mexican Literature, Film, Art and Photography – Paul-Henri Giraud: On Execution Walls, Bones, Horses and Tombs: Phantasmal Motifs and Funereal Tropes in Twentieth-Century Photography, Print and Painting in Mexico – David Craven: The Future That Was and Yet Might Be: The Mexican Revolution at 100 and its Afterimage in the Arts – Iván Pérez Daniel: Mirages of a Second Revolution: Mexican Writers and Socialist Realism (The Case of the Magazine Ruta, 1933-1935) – Christina Karageorgou-Bastea: Xavier Villaurrutia’s Poetics of the Flesh: Experience, Promiscuity and the Introspective Revolution, 1930s-1940s – Simon Carnell: Through ‘the Literary-Perception Scrambler’?: Lawrence, Huxley, Greene, Waugh and Lowry in Mexico between the Wars – Jesse Lerner: The Proletarian Camera: Héctor García and the Reconfiguring of the Mexican Stree – Steven Boldy: Fading Echoes of the Revolution in Carlos Fuentes’s Cristóbal Nonato – Dolores Tierney: Residual Presences of the Revolution(ary Melodrama) in Mexico’s Contemporary Transnational Filmmaking – Oriana Baddeley: Last Rites from Frida Kahlo to Teresa Margolles: Mexicanness and Visualizing the Politics of Victimhood.