Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988
223 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:01 Jul 1992
ISBN:9780292776616
Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988
Beyond the Pyramid
SERIES:
Texas Pan American Series
University of Texas Press
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.
- 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
