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

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.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments
• 1. Of Pyramids and Fleas: Mexican Narrative and the Crisis, 1968–1985
• 2. Gender, Genre, and Authority: Hasta no verte JesÚs mÍo (1969), by Elena Poniatowska
• 3. The Novel as Pyramid: Palinuro de MÉxico (1977), by Fernando del Paso
• 4. Commodification and Desire in the Wasteland: Las batallas en el desierto (1981), by JosÉ Emilio Pacheco
• 5. Apocalypse and Patricide: Cerca del fuego (1986), by JosÉ AgustÍn
• 6. Out of the Rubble: Mexican Narrative and Social Movements of the Late 1980s
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia Steele, Steele Cynthia
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1992
• EAN: 9780292776616
• ISBN: 978-0-292-77661-6
• No. of pages: 223
• Series: Texas Pan American Series; University of Texas Press; Texas Pan American Series; Texas Pan American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies