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Dancing on the Sun Stone
Dancing on the Sun Stone is a uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore women’s lives and gendered politics in Mexico. In this important work, scholar Marjorie Becker focuses on the complex Mexican women of rural Michoacán who performed an illicit revolutionary dance and places it in dialogue with Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz’s signature poem, “Sun Stone”—allowing a new gendered history to emerge. Through this dialogue, the women reveal intimate and intellectual complexities of Mexican women’s gendered voices, their histories, and their intimate and public lives. The work further demonstrates the ways these women, in dialogue with Paz, transformed history itself. Becker’s multigenre work reconstructs Mexican history through the temporal experiences of crucial Michoacán females, experiences that culminate in their complex revolutionary dance, which itself emerges as a transformative revolutionary language.
Setting the Virgin on Fire
In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lázaro Cárdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern. This dilemma is vividly illustrated in Michoacán. There, peasants were passionately engaged in a Catholic culture focusing on the Virgin Mary. The Cardenistas, inspired by revolutionary ideas of equality and modernity, were oblivious to the peasants' spirituality and determined to transform them. A series of dramatic conflicts forced Cárdenas to develop a government that embodied some of the peasants' complex culture. Becker brilliantly combines concerns with culture and power and a deep historical empathy to bring to life the men and women of her story. She shows how Mexico's government today owes much of its subtlety to the peasants of Michoacán.
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forum for inter-american research Vol 2
Volume 2 of 6 of the complete premium print version of journal forum for inter-american research (fiar), which is the official electronic journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS). fiar was established by the American Studies Program at Bielefeld University in 2008. We foster a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Americas. fiar is a peer-reviewed online journal. Articles in this journal undergo a double-blind review process and are published in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
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Wandering Peoples
Throughout this anthropological history, Radding presents multilayered meanings of culture, community, and ecology, and discusses both the colonial policies to which peasant communities were subjected and the responses they developed to adapt and resist them.
La creciente y otras narraciones
"La creciente", de Armida de la Vara, supera los límites de la crónica para cobrar la calidad de una novela que puede ser situada en la narrativa más moderna: una novela que nos da estampas pueblerinas sin caer en el viejo costumbrismo enfático; una novela en la que el laberinto de vidas "reales" da a la narración la más cálida encarnadura, una novela, en fin, construida con estampas sueltas sin que esa libertad del material temático dañe la unidad esencial que tiene la vida y carácter del protagonista: un villorío en decadencia. Así decía la cuarta de forros de la primera edición de "La creciente" escrita por Carlos H. Magis de El Colegio de México. En la presente edición se reeditan, junto con "La creciente", otros dos cuentos de Armida de la Vara "Galeón que viene, galeón que va" y "Alina". Complementan el libro dos textos de Eugenia Revueltas y Rocío Maciel sobre la autora, su vida y su obra.
