Literatura y cultura popular urbana
Title | Literatura y cultura popular urbana PDF eBook |
Author | Esperanza Bielsa Mialet |
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Release | 2006 |
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Carlos Monsiváis
Title | Carlos Monsiváis PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Egan |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2001-09-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0816543976 |
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 Contemporary Mexican Chronicle
Title | The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle PDF eBook |
Author | Ignacio Corona |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2002-08-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780791453537 |
Diverse perspectives on the “chronicle”as a literary genre and socio-cultural practice.
The Writing of Elena Poniatowska
Title | The Writing of Elena Poniatowska PDF eBook |
Author | Beth E. Jörgensen |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780292740334 |
Elena Poniatowska is one of Latin America's most distinguished and innovative living writers. Advocacy of women and the poor in their struggle for social and economic justice, denunciation of the repression of that struggle, and a tendency to blur the boundaries between conventional literary forms characterize her writing practice. Asserting that Poniatowska's writing has been uniquely shaped by her experience as a journalist and interviewer, Beth Jörgensen addresses four important texts: Palabras cruzadas (interviews), Hasta no verte Jesús mío (testimonial novel), La noche de Tlatelolco (oral history), and La "Flor de Lis" (novel of development). She also treats related pieces, including Lilus Kikus (short fiction), De noche vienes (short stories), Fuerte es el silencio (chronicles), and several of Poniatowska's essays. Her readings incorporate a variety of critical approaches within a feminist framework.
Victoria nuevas reflexiones
Title | Victoria nuevas reflexiones PDF eBook |
Author | Arturo Medellín Anaya |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Ciudad Victoria (Mexico) |
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY VIEWS ON POPULAR CULTURE: Proceedings of the 5th International SELICUP Conference
Title | MULTIDISCIPLINARY VIEWS ON POPULAR CULTURE: Proceedings of the 5th International SELICUP Conference PDF eBook |
Author | Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo |
Publisher | Universidad de Castilla La Mancha |
Pages | 550 |
Release | 2014-09-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 8461704002 |
The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader
Title | The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Ana del Sarto |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 834 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822333401 |
Essays by intellectuals and specialists in Latin American cultural studies that provide a comprehensive view of the specific problems, topics, and methodologies of the field vis-a-vis British and U.S. cultural studies.