The Cosmopolitan Mexican Summer, 1920–1949

Abstract

Mexico, now the United States' summer playground, once represented a season of revolutionary fascination, primitivism, and social hope to modernist and radical activists, artists, and writers.From the 1920s to the late 1940s, Mexico constituted for many foreigners a season of the kind evoked by modernist poet Wallace Stevens when he spoke of an essence of summer that could rejuvenate the self and recover peace, permanence, and intellectual concord: a summer to "fill the foliage with arrested peace, / Joy of such permanence, right ignorance / Of change still possible.Exile desire / for what is not.This is the barrenness / Of the fertile 224

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