OPINION: 'A lot of our take on exotic Mexico has been created by non-Mexican writers and filmmakers for whom Mexico has long served as a Rorschach test,' writes Tucsonan Brent Harold.
Exotic Mexico looms on Tucson’s southern horizon: its mountains, what we imagine about it, the stories that are told about it.
For William Prescott, who wrote an early history of the Spanish conquest, pre-conquest Mexico was soft and effeminate, no match for Cortez and his handful of macho stalwarts. Paul Theroux’s recent “On the Plain of Snakes,” an account of his road trip along the border and then all the way to Chiapas, makes a serious attempt to get to the real Mexico behind other writers’ versions.
A guide to road travel within Mexico is titled “Don’t Go there. It’s not safe. You’ll Die.” It mocks an attitude so common that the authors can’t resist using it as a lure, while not saying anything in the book to prove that you won’t die there.
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