Read and Download Emily Hind book Dude Lit in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Dude Lit. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 321 pages. Book excerpt: How did men become the stars of the Mexican intellectual scene? Dude Lit examines the tricks of the trade and reveals that sometimes literary genius rests on privileges that men extend one another and that women permit. The makings of the “best” writers have to do with superficial aspects, like conformist wardrobes and unsmiling expressions, and more complex techniques, such as friendship networks, prizewinners who become judges, dropouts who become teachers, and the key tactic of being allowed to shift roles from rule maker (the civilizado) to rule breaker (the bárbaro). Certain writing habits also predict success, with the “high and hard” category reserved for men’s writing and even film directing. In both film and literature, critically respected artwork by men tends to rely on obscenity interpreted as originality, negative topics viewed as serious, and coolly inarticulate narratives about bullying understood as maximum literary achievement. To build the case regarding “rebellion as conformity,” Dude Lit contemplates a wide set of examples while always returning to three figures, each born some two decades apart from the immediate predecessor: Juan Rulfo (with Pedro Páramo), José Emilio Pacheco (with Las batallas en el desierto), and Guillermo Fadanelli (with Mis mujeres muertas, as well as the range of his publications). Why do we believe Mexican men are competent performers of the role of intellectual? Dude Lit answers this question through a creative intersection of sources. Drawing on interviews, archival materials, and critical readings, this provocative book changes the conversation on literature and gendered performance.

Read and Download Cynthia Steele book Politics Gender and the Mexican Novel 1968 1988 in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Politics Gender and the Mexican Novel 1968 1988. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 223 pages. Book excerpt: 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.

Read and Download Jose Emilio Pacheco book Battles in the Desert 40th Anniversary Edition in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Battles in the Desert 40th Anniversary Edition . This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 52 pages. Book excerpt: This heart-breaking novella is a key work of 20th-century dystopian Mexican literature and sadly all too apropos today This landmark novella—one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times—offers a child’s-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in “the year of polio, foot-and-mouth disease, floods.” A middle-class boy grows up in a world of children aping adults (mock wars at recess pit Arabs against Jews), where a child’s left to ponder “how many evils and catastrophes we have yet to witness.” When Carlos laments the cruelty and corruption, the evils of a vicious class system, his older brother answers: “So what, we are living up to our ears in shit anyway under Miguel Alemán’s regime,” with “the face of El Senor Presidente everywhere: incessant, private abuse.” Sound familiar? Woven into this coming-of-age saga is the terribly intense love Carlos cherishes for his friend’s young mother, which has the effect of driving the general cruelties further under the reader’s skin. The acclaimed translator Katherine Silver has greatly revised her original translation, enlivening afresh this remarkable work.

Read and Download Stuart A. Day book Modern Mexican Culture in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Modern Mexican Culture. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 337 pages. Book excerpt: This collection of essays presents a key idea or event in the making of modern Mexico through the lenses of art and history--Provided by publisher.

Read and Download Sergio Delgado Moya book Delirious Consumption in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Delirious Consumption. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 300 pages. Book excerpt: In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass consumption on an unprecedented scale, giving rise to the consumer society that exists today. Many avant-garde artists explored the nexus between consumption and aesthetics, questioning how consumerism affects how we perceive the world, place ourselves in it, and make sense of it via perception and emotion. Delirious Consumption focuses on the two largest cultural economies in Latin America, Mexico and Brazil, and analyzes how their artists and writers both embraced and resisted the spirit of development and progress that defines the consumer moment in late capitalism. Sergio Delgado Moya looks specifically at the work of David Alfaro Siqueiros, the Brazilian concrete poets, Octavio Paz, and Lygia Clark to determine how each of them arrived at forms of aesthetic production balanced between high modernism and consumer culture. He finds in their works a provocative positioning vis-à-vis urban commodity capitalism, an ambivalent position that takes an assured but flexible stance against commodification, alienation, and the politics of domination and inequality that defines market economies. In Delgado Moya's view, these poets and artists appeal to uselessness, nonutility, and noncommunication—all markers of the aesthetic—while drawing on the terms proper to a world of consumption and consumer culture.

Read and Download Germán Vergara book Fueling Mexico in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Fueling Mexico. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 335 pages. Book excerpt: Germán Vergara explains how, when, and why fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) became the basis of Mexican society.

Read and Download Eladio Cortes book Dictionary of Mexican Literature in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Dictionary of Mexican Literature. This book was released on 1992-11-24 with total page 815 pages. Book excerpt: This volume features approximately 600 entries that represent the major writers, literary schools, and cultural movements in the history of Mexican literature. A collaborative effort by American, Mexican, and Hispanic scholars, the text contains bibliographical, biographical, and critical material--placing each work cited within its cultural and historical framework. Intended to enrich the English-speaking public's appreciation of the rich diversity of Mexican literature, works are selected on the basis of their contribution toward an understanding of this unique artistry. The dictionary contains entries keyed by author and works, the length of each entry determined by the relative significance of the writer or movement being discussed. Each biographical entry identifies the author's literary contribution by including facts about his or her life and works, a chronological list of works, a supplementary bibliography, and, when appropriate, critical notes. Authors are listed alphabetically and cross-referenced both within the text and the index to facilitate easy access to information. Selected bibliographical entries are also listed alphabetically by author and include both the original title and English translation, publisher, date and place of publication, and number of pages.

Read and Download Verity Smith book Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 704 pages. Book excerpt: The Concise Encyclopedia includes: all entries on topics and countries, cited by many reviewers as being among the best entries in the book; entries on the 50 leading writers in Latin America from colonial times to the present; and detailed articles on some 50 important works in this literature-those who read and studied in the English-speaking world.

Read and Download Stephanie Merrim book A Latin American Existentialist Ethos in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book A Latin American Existentialist Ethos. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 357 pages. Book excerpt: With their emphasis on freedom and engagement, European existentialisms offered Latin Americans transformative frameworks for thinking and writing about their own locales. In taking up these frameworks, Latin Americans endowed them with a distinctive ethos, a turn towards questions of identity and ethics. Stephanie Merrim situates major literary and philosophical works—by the existentialist Grupo Hiperión, Rosario Castellanos, Octavio Paz, José Revueltas, Juan Rulfo, and Rodolfo Usigli—within this dynamic context. Collectively, their writings manifest an existentialist ethos attuned to the matters most alive and pressing in their specific situations—matters linked to gender, Indigeneity, the Mexican Revolution, and post-Revolution politics. That each of these writers orchestrates a unique center of gravity renders Mexican existentialist literature an always shifting, always passionate adventure. A Latin American Existentialist Ethos takes readers on this adventure, conveying the passions of its subjects lucidly and vibrantly. It is at once a detailed portrait of twentieth-century Mexican existentialism and an expansive look at Latin American literary existentialism in relation—and opposition—to its European counterparts.

Read and Download Lauren Shaw book Song and Social Change in Latin America in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Song and Social Change in Latin America. This book was released on 2013 with total page 257 pages. Book excerpt: Offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political upheavals throughout Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the present

Read and Download Wolf Walker book Las batallas por la supervivencia del cosmos in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Las batallas por la supervivencia del cosmos. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 627 pages. Book excerpt: Bienvenido querido lector, bienvenido a la saga "Las batallas por la supervivencia del cosmos" y, en concreto, al primer episodio titulado "El comienzo del inicio" que se subdividira en cuatro libros. Para comenzar, veremos el primer tomo titulado "El planeta de Dronag y su primer poder." Este primer libro contiene las aventuras de Dronag, quien nacio con el unico proposito de cancelar el ciclo cosmico o, mejor dicho, destruir a todo el cosmos. Asi que comenzaremos con el nacimiento de este ser destructivo. La historia se desarrollara principalmente en su planeta; aunque hay cuatro seres que narran los sucesos que ocurren en otro universo pero que son importantes en el transcurso de la accion. Otros personajes importantes son las cadetes, quienes lucharan para convertirse en la siguiente princesa guerrera; los integrantes del clan ollac, el gigante Sot-ord, la sombra del dia y la de la oscuridad, asi como el rey azul. Todos ellos tienen distintas historias que influiran en la existencia de Dronag de una u otra forma. Bienvenido querido lector a este primer libro en donde encontrara fabulosas aventuras con inesperados sucesos, los cuales seran narrados en parte por los propios personajes que las vivieron y por otra parte seran narrados por mi mismo.

Read and Download Glen David Kuecker book Mapping the Megalopolis in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Mapping the Megalopolis. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 305 pages. Book excerpt: Mapping the Megalopolis is an interdisciplinary collection of 10 essays on contemporary Mexico City. Through topics such as the privatization of public space and challenges to existing conceptualizations of the urban form, it explores the order and disorder that mutually constitute the city in its social, political, and aesthetic manifestations. /span

Read and Download Marco Ramírez Rojas book Growing Up in Latin America in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Growing Up in Latin America. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 301 pages. Book excerpt: Growing up in Latin America is a collection of essays centered on the representation of the political and historical agency of children and youth within the sociohistorical panorama of Latin American countries during the 20th and 21st centuries. Questions of gender, migration, violence, postcoloniality, and precarity are central to this volume.

Read and Download R. Victoria Arana book The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry. This book was released on 2008 with total page 545 pages. Book excerpt: The Facts On File Companion to World Poetry : 1900 to the Present is a comprehensive introduction to 20th and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems.

Read and Download Daniel Balderston book Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature 1900 2003 in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature 1900 2003. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 701 pages. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric. The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well as being of huge interest to those folowing Spanish or Portuguese language courses.

Read and Download Bryan Pearce-Gonzales book Societal Constructions of Masculinity in Chicanx and Mexican Literature in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Societal Constructions of Masculinity in Chicanx and Mexican Literature. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 166 pages. Book excerpt: 'Societal Constructions of Masculinity in Chicanx and Mexican Literature: From Machismo to Feminist Masculinity' demonstrates how masculinity has been constructed and deconstructed as a challenge or reinforcement of patriarchy in cultural works over the last 50 years. The discussion therein focuses on the cultural shift towards a feminist masculinity and how this change is represented in Chicanx and Mexican literature and Mexican telenovelas. The book begins with how violence, citizenship, and masculinity become intertwined as patriarchy fights, both literally and figuratively, to regain the ground it lost to women's agency during WWII. It explores the author's subversion of the status quo through imagining a new aesthetic based on a poetic masculinity which highlights new forms of social relations that validate new masculinities. This is followed by examining texts from the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution that demonstrate how, by pairing the successes and failures of the nation with masculinity, one can see that as time progresses the very definition of what it signifies to be a Mexican male has been adapting along with the State. The book also explains how fatherhood has been represented in Chicanx literature and considers masculine relationships more broadly. The analysis of the telenovelas in this volume indicates how homosexuality serves as the catalyst for a reconfiguring of gender narratives, ultimately leading to change and acceptance within Mexican society while providing an unequivocal look into the future of masculinity as it begins to overthrow its historical gender binaries. This book will appeal to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals, both specialists and generalists, in fields including Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Comparative Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Latina/o Studies, Latin and American Studies, and Cultural Studies. Feminists and activists for human rights will also find this an interesting and valuable text.

Read and Download Donald F. Stevens book Latin American History at the Movies in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Latin American History at the Movies. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 347 pages. Book excerpt: Combining history with discussion of cinema, this book examines how film has portrayed five hundred years of Latin America history. An introduction on the visual presentation of the past sets the stage for essays that explore sixteen of the best feature films on Latin America from the perspective of historians.