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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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"Naciones Intelectuales explores the processes and works that laid the foundations of a new literary modernity in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. It focuses on the period from the signing of the Constitution in 1917, to the death of Alfonso Reyes in 1959, and analyzes the four elements of Mexican cultural practices: the notion of literature, the figure of the intellectual, the creation of academic institutions, and the definition of national identity that emerged through the various debates held by leading figures of the period. The book analyzes different key moments, controversies, and cultural interventions, which ultimately led the diverse aesthetic spectrum created by the revolution into becoming a highly institutional system of literature. This book offers a cartography of Mexican literary institutions unprecedented in scope, which will allow readers, students, and scholars to understand the construction of modern Mexican literature in a clear, rigorous, and systematic way."--Publisher's website.
Mexican literature --- National characteristics, Mexican, in literature. --- Littérature mexicaine. --- 20e siècle. --- History and criticism. --- Mexico --- Mexico --- Intellectual life --- Intellectual life
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Spanish-American literature --- Film --- Mexico --- National characteristics, Mexican, in literature --- National characteristics, Mexican, in motion pictures --- Mexican literature --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism --- History --- National characteristics, Mexican, in literature. --- National characteristics, Mexican, in motion pictures. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Mexican literature - 21st century - History and criticism --- Motion pictures - Mexico - History
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Blending cultural studies, literary analysis, and political and intellectual history, Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams shows how Elena Garro's life and work expose the impasses inherent to the concept of Mexican modernity. While Garro is well known for the gossip and conflicts she created in literary and political circles, this study explores her radical critique of Mexican modernity and its intellectual apologists. Her critique also applies to the
National characteristics, Mexican, in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Garro, Elena --- Garro Navarro, Elena --- Navarro, Elena Garro --- Garro Banda, Elena --- Banda, Elena Garro --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Mexico --- Civilization.
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While the concept of defeat in the Mexican literary canon is frequently acknowledged, it has rarely been explored in the fullness of the psychological and religious contexts that define this aspect of "mexicanidad." Going beyond the simple narrative of self-defeat, The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity presents a model of failure as a source of knowledge and renewed self-awareness. Studying the relationship between national identity and failure, John Ochoa revisits the foundational texts of Mexican intellectual and literary history, the "national monuments," and offers a new vision of the pivotal events that echo throughout Mexican aesthetics and politics. The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity encompasses five centuries of thought, including the works of the Conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo, whose sixteenth-century True History of the Conquest of New Spain formed Spanish-speaking Mexico's early self-perceptions; José Vasconcelos, the essayist and politician who helped rebuild the nation after the Revolution of 1910; and the contemporary novelist Carlos Fuentes. A fascinating study of a nation's volatile journey towards a sense of self, The Uses of Failure elegantly weaves ethical issues, the philosophical implications of language, and a sociocritical examination of Latin American writing for a sparkling addition to the dialogue on global literature.
Mexican prose literature --- Failure (Psychology) in literature. --- National characteristics, Mexican, in literature. --- Literature and history --- History and criticism. --- Mexico --- Historiography. --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- Mexican literature
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"La idea central de este libro no es menos contundente que polémica: la crónica es lo mejor de la literatura mexicana. Sara Sefchovich encuentra en la crónica la clave para entender nuestra visión del país y de nosotros mismos y su expresión cultural. De acuerdo con la autora, 'la narrativa, la poesía y el ensayo funcionaron como crónicas a lo largo de la historia de México,' y ni el cine, ni la música ni la fotografía o la pintura misma se alejan de esta vocación por la inmediatez, por el relato a la vez fiel e inventado de la realidad, por la problemática reflexión sobre el yo de quien cronica, por la creación de obras que sean a la vez retratos, espejos y cajas de resonancia. Al recorrido histórico por el género, desde el Popol Vuh y Hernán Cortés hasta los autores de hoy, se agrega la lectura crítica, a veces cómplice, a veces mordaz, pero siempre profunda e informada de Sefchovich. La invitación es clara: reestructurar nuestra idea de la literatura mexicana con la lectura de sus cronistas más notables"--Publisher's description.
History in literature. --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. --- LITERARY CRITICISM. --- Literature and history --- Literature and history. --- Mexican essays --- Mexican essays. --- Mexican literature --- Mexican literature. --- National characteristics, Mexican, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Mexico.
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Mexican literature --- Mexican literature --- Masculinity in literature. --- National characteristics, Mexican, in literature --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Littérature mexicaine --- Masculinité dans la littérature --- Homosexualité dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique
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Machismo in motion pictures --- Masculinity in literature --- Masculinity in motion pictures --- Mexican literature --- Motion pictures --- National characteristics, Mexican, in literature --- Violence in literature --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A74 --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- History and criticism --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- anno 1900-1999 --- Mexico
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