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Lynn Stephen examines the writing of Elena Poniatowska, showing how it shaped Mexican political discourse and provides a unique way of understanding contemporary Mexican history, politics, and culture.
List of contents
List of Abbreviations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. On Testimony, Social Memory, and Strategic Emotional Political Communities in Elena Poniatowska's Crónicas 1
1. Mexico City's Growing Critical Public: News and Publishing, 1959–1985 31
2. The 1968 Student Movement and Massacre 60
3. A History We Cannot Forget: The 1985 Earthquake, Civil Society, and a New Political Future 110
4. Engaging with the EZLN as a Writer and Public Intellectual 151
5.
Amanecer en el Zócalo: Crónica, Diary, and Gendered Political Analysis 197
6.
¡Regrésenlos! The Forty-Three Disappeared Students from Ayotzinapa 228
Conclusion: Telling Stories, Making History 247
Notes 257
Bibliography 281
Index 303
About the author
Lynn Stephen is Philip H. Knight Chair, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Anthropology, and graduate faculty in Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author or editor of fourteen books, including
We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements, also published by Duke University Press, and most recently coeditor of
Indigenous Women and Violence: Feminist Activist Research in Heightened States of Injustice.
Summary
Lynn Stephen examines the writing of Elena Poniatowska, showing how it shaped Mexican political discourse and provides a unique way of understanding contemporary Mexican history, politics, and culture.
