The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle

Author : Ignacio Corona
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791453544
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle written by Ignacio Corona and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse perspectives on the “chronicle”as a literary genre and socio-cultural practice.

Author : Linda Egan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816521379
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carlos Monsiv‡is written by Linda Egan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of MexicoÕs foremost social and political chroniclers and its most celebrated cultural critic, Carlos Monsiv‡is has read the pulse of his country over the past half century. The author of five collections of literary journalism pieces called cr—nicas, he is perhaps best known for his analytic and often satirical descriptions of Mexico CityÕs popular culture. This comprehensive study of Monsiv‡isÕs cr—nicas is the first book to offer an analysis of these works and to place Monsiv‡isÕs work within a theoretical framework that recognizes the importance of his vision of Mexican culture. Linda Egan examines his ideology in relation to theoretical postures in Latin America, the United States, and Europe to cast Monsiv‡is as both a heterodox pioneer and a mainstream spokesman. She then explores the poetics of the contemporary chronicle in Mexico, reviewing the genreÕs history and its relation to other narrative forms. Finally, she focuses on the canonical status of Monsiv‡isÕs work, devoting a chapter to each of his five principal collections. Egan argues that the five books that are the focus of her study tell a story of ever-renewing suspense: we cannot know Òthe endÓ until Monsiv‡is is through constructing his literary project. Despite this, she observes, his work between 1970 and 1995 documents important discoveries in his search for causes, effects, and deconstructions of historical obstacles to MexicoÕs passage into modernity. While anthropologists and historians continue to introduce new paradigms for the study of MexicoÕs cultural space, EganÕs book provides a reflexive twist by examining the work of one of the thinkers who first inspired such a critical movement. More than an appraisal of Monsiv‡is, it offers a valuable discussion of theoretical issues surrounding the study of the chronicle as it is currently practiced in Mexico. It balances theory and criticism to lend new insight into the ties between Mexican society, social conscience, and literature.

Author : Arianna Alfaro Porras
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Representation of the Modern Mexican Nation in Contemporary Mexican Chronicles written by Arianna Alfaro Porras and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my dissertarion I explore the national project of the government born from the Mexican Revolution of 1910. This national project consisted of the dissemination of an image of prosperity, economic stability, justice and equal rights for all Mexicans. However, during the 20th Century, different groups erupted to confront the Revolution ideology, its government, and to disarticulate the image of Mexico imposed. The decline of this image started in 1968, which is also the moment when the crónica (chronicle) emerged as a literary genre that indentified with marginal sectors in Mexican society. Also, I study how the crónica of Mexico from the second half of the 20 th Century, represents these marginal groups in its struggle for the construction of a nation that would include them. Through the theory of Homi Bhabha, who establishes that nation is a territory in dispute, I examine the representations of "el Movimiento Estudiantil" of 1968, the 1985 earthquake, and the presidential elections of 2006. In addition, I study the representation of the nation space in crónicas that register the marginal periphery of Mexico City and its struggle for the possession of the urban space. In addition, another group that has been marginalized within the national official project is women. I explore the limited inclusion of women in this national project through their access to work and their participation in society. Lastly, the indigenous movements have been the clearest events that show the failure of the Revolution and its agrarian reform. Even though there are few guerrillas, I only analyze the representations of the EZLN movement and its leader Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. The crónicas selected are by cronistas like: Carlos Monsivais, Elena Poniatowska, Alma Guillermoprieto, Cristina Pacheco, Magali Tercero, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Juan Villoro, and Guadalupe Loaeza.

Author : Beth E. Jörgensen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438439407
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Documents in Crisis written by Beth E. Jörgensen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 Best Book in the Humanities presented by the Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association In the turbulent twentieth century, large numbers of Mexicans of all social classes faced crisis and catastrophe on a seemingly continuous basis. Revolution, earthquakes, industrial disasters, political and labor unrest, as well as indigenous insurgency placed extraordinary pressures on collective and individual identity. In contemporary literary studies, nonfiction literatures have received scant attention compared to the more supposedly "creative" practices of fictional narrative, poetry, and drama. In Documents in Crisis, Beth E. Jörgensen examines a selection of both canonical and lesser-known examples of narrative nonfiction that were written in response to these crises, including the autobiography, memoir, historical essay, testimony, chronicle, and ethnographic life narrative. She addresses the relative neglect of Mexican nonfiction in criticism and theory and demonstrates its continuing relevance for writers and readers who, in spite of the contemporary blurring of boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, remain fascinated by literatures of fact.

Author : Linda Egan
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826516408
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico Reading the United States written by Linda Egan and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A provocative and uncommon reversal of perspective."--Elena Poniatowska.

Author : Maria-Luisa Ruiz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expanding Boundaries, Alternative Visions written by Maria-Luisa Ruiz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thea Pitman
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039110209
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican Travel Writing written by Thea Pitman and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed study of salient examples of Mexican travel writing from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While scholars have often explored the close relationship between European or North American travel writing and the discourse of imperialism, little has been written on how postcolonial subjects might relate to the genre. This study first traces the development of a travel-writing tradition based closely on European imperialist models in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico. It then goes on to analyse how the narrative techniques of postmodernism and the political agenda of postcolonialism might combine to help challenge the genre's imperialist tendencies in late twentieth-century works of travel writing, focusing in particular on works by writers Juan Villoro, Héctor Perea and Fernando Solana Olivares.

Author : Alberto Ulloa Bornemann
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592134238
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surviving Mexico's Dirty War written by Alberto Ulloa Bornemann and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major, book-length memoir of a political prisoner from Mexico's "dirty war" of the 1970s. Written with the urgency of a first-person narrative, it is a unique work, providing an inside story of guerrilla activities and a gripping tale of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Mexican government. Alberto Ulloa Bornemann was a young idealist when he dedicated himself to clandestine resistance and to assisting Lucio Cabañas, the guerrilla leader of the "Party of the Poor." Here the author exposes readers to the day-to-day activities of revolutionary activists seeking to avoid discovery by government forces. After his capture, Ulloa Bornemann endured disappearance into a secret military jail and later abusive conditions in three civilian prisons. Although testimonios of former political prisoners from other Latin American nations have recently come into print, there are very few books about Mexico's political wars—and none as vivid and disturbing as this.

Author : Jeffrey W. Kassing
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319558315
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on the U.S.-Mexico Soccer Rivalry written by Jeffrey W. Kassing and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume considers the U.S.-Mexico soccer rivalry, which occurs against a complex geo-political, social, and economic backdrop. Multidisciplinary contributions explore how a long and complicated history between these countries has produced a unique rivalry—one in which loyalties split friends and family; fan turnout in many regions of the U.S. favors Mexico; and games are imbued with both national pride and politics. The themes of nationhood, geography, citizenship, acculturation, identity, globalization, narrative and mythology reverberate throughout this book, especially with regard to how they shape place, identity, and culture.

Author : Viviane Mahieux
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292726694
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America written by Viviane Mahieux and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unstructured genre that blends high aesthetic standards with nonfiction commentary, the journalistic crónica, or chronicle, has played a vital role in Latin American urban life since the nineteenth century. Drawing on extensive archival research, Viviane Mahieux delivers new testimony on how chroniclers engaged with modernity in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and São Paulo during the 1920s and 1930s, a time when avant-garde movements transformed writers' and readers' conceptions of literature. Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America: The Shared Intimacy of Everyday Life examines the work of extraordinary raconteurs Salvador Novo, Cube Bonifant, Roberto Arlt, Alfonsina Storni, and Mário de Andrade, restoring the original newspaper contexts in which their articles first emerged. Each of these writers guided their readers through a constantly changing cityscape and advised them on matters of cultural taste, using their ties to journalism and their participation in urban practice to share accessible wisdom and establish their role as intellectual arbiters. The intimate ties they developed with their audience fostered a permeable concept of literature that would pave the way for overtly politically engaged chroniclers of the 1960s and 1970s. Providing comparative analysis as well as reflection on the evolution of this important genre, Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America is the first systematic study of the Latin American writers who forged a new reading public in the early twentieth century.