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Author:

Mahieux, Viviane.

Title:

Urban chroniclers in modern Latin America : the shared intimacy of everyday life / Viviane Mahieux.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xii, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Reportage literature, Latin American--History and criticism.
Literature and society--Latin America.
City and town life--Latin America.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Latin America--Intellectual life.
Latin America--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-220) and index.

Contents:

Cities, publics, and urban chroniclers in Latin America: 1920s-1930s -- A common citizen writes Buenos Aires: Roberto Arlt's Aguafuertes porteñas -- Taking Readers for a ride: Mario de Andrade's Táxi -- The chronicler as streetwalker: Salvador Novo performs genre -- Overstepping femininity: the chronicle and gender norms -- Appendices. Five chronicles in translation, translated by Jacinto R. Fombona. 1. "Corrientes, at night" / by Roberto Arlt ; 2. "The cult of the statues" / by Mário de Andrade ; 3. "On the advantages of not being fashionable" / by Salvador Novo ; 4. "The perfect typist" / by Alfonsina Storni ; 5. "Long hair and short ideas" / by Cube Bonifant.

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

ISBN:

0292726694 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292726697 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)714734742

LCCN:

2011027162

Locations:

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)