Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988 - Beyond the Pyramid

Informationen zum Autor Cynthia Steele is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. Klappentext The student massacre at Tlatelolco in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, marked the beginning of an era of rapid social change in Mexico. In this illuminating study, Cynthia Steele explores how the writers of the next two decades responded to the massacre and to the social crisis it signaled in terms of political change and gender identity. Zusammenfassung How Mexican writers responded to a 1968 student massacre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments1. Of Pyramids and Fleas: Mexican Narrative and the Crisis, 1968–19852. Gender, Genre, and Authority: Hasta no verte JesÚs mÍo (1969), by Elena Poniatowska3. The Novel as Pyramid: Palinuro de MÉxico (1977), by Fernando del Paso4. Commodification and Desire in the Wasteland: Las batallas en el desierto (1981), by JosÉ Emilio Pacheco5. Apocalypse and Patricide: Cerca del fuego (1986), by JosÉ AgustÍn6. Out of the Rubble: Mexican Narrative and Social Movements of the Late 1980sNotesBibliographyIndex

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Cynthia Steele, Steele Cynthia
• Verlag: University Of Texas Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.07.1992
• EAN: 9780292776616
• ISBN: 978-0-292-77661-6
• Seiten: 223
• Serien: Texas Pan American Series; University of Texas Press; Texas Pan American Series; Texas Pan American
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Romanische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft