The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle write by Ignacio Corona. This book was released on 2002-07-18. The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The crónica, or chronicle, which crosses the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, literature and journalism, is a highly polemical and widely read form of writing in Mexico and throughout Latin America, where it plays an influential cultural, social, and historical role. For the first time, this book addresses the theory and practice of the chronicle in twentieth-century Mexico. Contributions by Mexican writers such as Carlos Monsiváis and Elena Poniatowska and essays on a wide range of texts and authors provide diverse perspectives on the chronicle as a literary genre and as a cultural and social practice.
The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle
The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle write by Ignacio Corona. This book was released on 2002-08-01. The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diverse perspectives on the “chronicle”as a literary genre and socio-cultural practice.
Carlos Monsiváis
Carlos Monsiváis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carlos Monsiváis write by Linda Egan. This book was released on 2001-09-01. Carlos Monsiváis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of Mexico’s foremost social and political chroniclers and its most celebrated cultural critic, Carlos Monsiváis has read the pulse of his country over the past half century. The author of five collections of literary journalism pieces called crónicas, he is perhaps best known for his analytic and often satirical descriptions of Mexico City’s popular culture. This comprehensive study of Monsiváis’s crónicas is the first book to offer an analysis of these works and to place Monsiváis’s 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 Monsiváis as both a heterodox pioneer and a mainstream spokesman. She then explores the poetics of the contemporary chronicle in Mexico, reviewing the genre’s history and its relation to other narrative forms. Finally, she focuses on the canonical status of Monsiváis’s 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 “the end” until Monsiváis 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 Mexico’s passage into modernity. While anthropologists and historians continue to introduce new paradigms for the study of Mexico’s cultural space, Egan’s 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 Monsiváis, 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.
The Representation of the Modern Mexican Nation in Contemporary Mexican Chronicles
The Representation of the Modern Mexican Nation in Contemporary Mexican Chronicles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Representation of the Modern Mexican Nation in Contemporary Mexican Chronicles write by Arianna Alfaro Porras. This book was released on 2011. The Representation of the Modern Mexican Nation in Contemporary Mexican Chronicles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Mexico Reading the United States
Mexico Reading the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mexico Reading the United States write by Linda Egan. This book was released on 2009-07-17. Mexico Reading the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A provocative and uncommon reversal of perspective."--Elena Poniatowska.
