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The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender. While Paz’s privileged, prize-winning legacy has endured worldwide, Garro’s literary gifts garnered no international prizes and received less attention in Latin American literary circles. Restoring a dual perspective on these two dynamic writers and their world, Uncivil Wars chronicles a collective memory of wars that shaped Mexico, and in turn shaped Garro and Paz, from the Conquest period to the Mexican Revolution; the Spanish Civil War, which the couple witnessed while traveling abroad; and the student massacre at Tlatelolco Plaza in 1968, which brought about social and political changes and further tensions in the battle of the sexes. The cultural contexts of machismo and ethnicity provide an equally rich ground for Sandra Cypess’s exploration of the tandem between the writers’ personal lives and their literary production. Uncivil Wars illuminates the complexities of Mexican society as seen through a tense marriage of two talented, often oppositional writers. The result is an alternative interpretation of the myths and realities that have shaped Mexican identity, and its literary soul, well into the twenty-first century.

Paz, Octavio --- Garro, Elena --- National characteristics, Mexican, in literature. --- Collective memory --- Paz, Octavio, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"Focuses on costumbrismo, a cultural trend in Latin America and Spain toward representing local customs, types, and scenes of everyday life in the visual arts and literature, to examine the shifting terms of Mexican identity in the nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.

Art, Mexican --- Mexican literature --- National characteristics, Mexican, in literature. --- National characteristics, Mexican, in art. --- Mexicans in literature. --- Mexicans in art. --- Contemporáneos (Group of writers) --- Mexican art --- Tepito Arte Acá (Group of artists) --- Themes, motives. --- Mexico --- In literature. --- ART / Caribbean & Latin American. --- ART / History / General. --- Art mexicain --- Art, Mexican. --- Littérature mexicaine --- Mexicains dans l'art --- Mexicains dans la littérature --- Mexican literature. --- Mexicans in art --- Mexicans in literature --- National characteristics, Mexican, in art --- National characteristics, Mexican, in literature --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- History and criticism --- History --- 1800-1899. --- Mexico. --- In art --- Casta. --- Costumbrismo. --- Gender Identity. --- Identity. --- Mestizaje. --- Mexican Art. --- Miscegenation. --- National Identity. --- Nationalism. --- Nineteenth-Century Latin American Art. --- Nineteenth-Century Mexican Art. --- Racial Identity. --- Racial Mixing. --- Realism. --- Social Identity.