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The Little Old Lady Killer
The surprising true story of Mexico’s hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killer For three years, amid widespread public outrage, police in Mexico City struggled to uncover the identity of the killer responsible for the ghastly deaths of forty elderly women, many of whom had been strangled in their homes with a stethoscope by someone posing as a government nurse. When Juana Barraza Samperio, a female professional wrestler known as la Dama del Silencio (the Lady of Silence), was arrested—and eventually sentenced to 759 years in prison—for her crimes as the Mataviejitas (the little old lady killer), her case disrupted traditional narratives about gender, criminality, ...
Historia de la muerte en México
A diferencia de otros países, en México la muerte no es un concepto incómodo, sino una amiga entrañable. Esta obra intenta, además de establecer la relación del mexicano con el final de la existencia, contar historias sobre la manera en que los difuntos forman parte de esta cultura. Aquí protagonizan, además de la muerte, los muertos. Los mexicanos conviven todo el tiempo con los cadáveres: les toman fotografías, los visten, se los comen, los desentierran, los exhiben en museos destinados a ese fin, los convierten en juguetes, los conservan e incluso los criminales envían mensajes utilizando restos humanos y llegando a hacer verdaderas instalaciones cadavéricas. A caballo entre la investigación histórica, la biografía, el ensayo y la crónica, este libro pretende demostrar un hecho fundamental: ayer, hoy y mañana, los muertos en México están más vivos que nunca.
Secreto 1910 (Serie Secreto 1)
Un joven soldado se ve envuelto en el asalto al Palacio Nacional en contra del Presidente Francisco I. Madero 1913, durante la llamada "Decena Trágica". Descubre que el petróleo de México es un botín que se peleaban las potencias mundiales, las mismas que provocaron la Revolución de 1910. Una inquietante narración sobre los poderosos intereses que han manejado el destino de México desde hace cien años. Simón Barroso es un joven soldado que pertenece al batallón del general porfirista Bernardo Reyes, quien decide dar un golpe de Estado al presidente Francisco I. Madero para evitar la desintegración de la República. Como parte de su estrategia, Reyes entregó al embajador de Aleman...
Rascally Signs in Sacred Places
David Whisnant provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic relationship between culture, power, and policy in Nicaragua over the last 450 years. Spanning a broad spectrum of popular and traditional expressive forms--including literature, music, film, and broadcast media--the book explores the evolution of Nicaraguan culture, its manipulation for political purposes, and the opposition to cultural policy by a variety of marginalized social and regional groups. Within the historical narrative of cultural change over time, Whisnant skillfully discusses important case studies of Nicaraguan cultural politics: the consequences of the unauthorized removal of archaeological treasures from the co...
El jardín de Babel
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Sin Puertas Visibles
Sin puertas visibles (No Visible Doors) is a fully bilingual anthology featuring emerging women poets whose work provides a taste of the adventurous new writing infusing the Mexican literary tradition today. All eleven poets represented here have had at least one book published in Mexico, yet none of their work has been translated into English until now. Mexico possesses one of Latin America's most important poetic traditions, but its depth and range are virtually unknown to readers north of the border. Reflecting the diversity and complexity of contemporary Mexican poetry, the poems presented here are by turns meditative and explosive, sensuous and inventive, ironic and tender-in short, they are subversive, provocative, and bold.
