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Three Messages and a Warning
A radical combination of emerging and established Mexican authors of original tales of the fantastic.
Subterranean Space in Contemporary Mexico City Literature
This book studies the role of subterranean spaces in literary works about Mexico City. It analyzes how underground spaces such as the subway, the sewage system, tunnels, crypts, and the subsoil itself relate to the whole of the city in a body of works published after 1985, the year of the deadliest earthquake in the capital’s history. The texts belong to the most important genres in urban literature (the novel, the short story, and the crónica) and demonstrate the crucial role played by the underground in contemporary imaginings of the megalopolis, as it condenses and confronts the tensions that run through them. This central idea is developed through four analytical chapters focusing on the political, ecological, historical, and aesthetic dimension of subterranean imaginaries.
The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage
Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought. The first major social revolution of the twentieth century, the Mexican Revolution was visually documented in technologically novel ways and to an unprecedented degree during its initial armed phase (1910–21) and the subsequent years of reconstruction (1921–40). Offering a sweeping and compelling new account of this iconic revolution, The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage reveals its profound impact on both global cinema and intellectual thought in and beyond Mexico. Focusing on the period from 1940 to 1970, Adela Pineda Franco examines a group of North American, European, an...
Counterfeit Politics
In Counterfeit Politics, David Kelman reassesses the political significance of conspiracy theory. Traditionally, political theory has sought to banish the “paranoid style” from the “proper” domain of politics. But if conspiracy theory lies outside the sphere of legitimate politics, why do these narratives continue to haunt political life? Counterfeit Politics accounts for the seemingly ineradicable nature of conspiracy theory by arguing that all political statements ultimately take the form of conspiracy theory. Through careful readings of works by Ernest Hemingway, Ricardo Piglia, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Jorge Luis Borges, Ishmael Reed, Jorge Volpi, Rigoberta Menchú, and Ánge...
Paseos sin rumbo
Paseos sin rumbo, un iluminador ensayo literario que indaga las mutuas referencias entre la literatura y el cine, despertará el interés tanto de los aficionados al cine contemporáneo más consagrado, desde Stanley Kubrick a Quentin Tarantino, hasta los amantes de las series televisivas de más éxito. Un libro que, desde lo fragmentario y errático, es digno heredero de la tradición encarnada por Charles Baudelaire o Walter Benjamin. La aguda mirada de Mauricio Montiel traspasa nuestra más prosaica cotidianidad y la dota de una inquietante transparencia, llena de matices perturbadores.
Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature
This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary urban space in twenty-first century Latin American fiction. The contributors to this volume seek to understand the characteristics that make the representation of the postmodern city in a Latin American context unique. The chapters focus on cities from a wide variety of countries in the region, highlighting the cultural and political effects of neoliberalism and globalization in the contemporary urban scene. Twenty-first century authors share an interest for images of ruins and dystopian landscapes and their view of the damaging effects of the global market in Latin America tends to be pessimistic. As the book demonstrates, however, utopian elements or “spaces of hope” can also be found in these narrations, which suggest the possibility of transforming a capitalist-dominated living space.
Asedios a la obra de Ricardo Piglia
Contenido: Una obra experimental y vanguardista - Poética de la narración - Genética textual - Metáforas de la creación literaria - Estrategias de (dis)continuidad discursiva - Historia y memoria - Género y voz enunciativa - El personaje femenino - Modelos y canon.Contenu : Une oeuvre expérimentale et avant-gardiste - Poétique de la narration - Genèse textuelle - Métaphores de la création littéraire - Stratégies de (dis)continuité discursive - Histoire et mémoire - Genre et voix de l'énonciation - Le personnage féminin - Modèles et canon littéraire
Ossa nel deserto
«Qualche anno fa i miei amici che vivono in Messico, stanchi di sentirmi chiedere informazioni, e per di più sempre più dettagliate, sulle donne assassinate a Ciudad Juárez, decisero, a quanto pare di comune accordo, di incentrare e scaricare questo compito su Sergio González Rodríguez, che è uno scrittore, saggista e giornalista e chissà quante altre cose ancora, e che secondo loro era la persona più informata su questo caso, un caso unico negli annali del crimine latinoamericano: più di trecento donne violentate e assassinate in un arco di tempo estremamente breve, dal 1993 al 2002, in una città al confine con gli Stati Uniti di appena un milione di abitanti ... Ossa nel deserto non solo è una fotografia imperfetta, come non avrebbe potuto essere altrimenti, del male e della corruzione, ma diventa una metafora del Messico e del passato del Messico e del futuro incerto di tutta l’America latina. È un libro che non appartiene alla tradizione avventuriera ma alla tradizione apocalittica, che sono le uniche tradizioni rimaste vive nel nostro continente, forse perché sono le uniche in grado di avvicinarci all’abisso che ci circonda». ROBERTO BOLAÑO
Di algo para romper este silencio
A collection of stories written as the style of Raymond Carver. A group of writters celebrates him with this anthology.
