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Author:

Cypess, Sandra Messinger.

Title:

Uncivil wars : Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the battle for cultural memory / Sandra Messinger Cypess.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xii, 247 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Garro, Elena--Criticism and interpretation.
Paz, Octavio,--1914-1998--Criticism and interpretation.
National characteristics, Mexican, in literature.
Collective memory--Mexico.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-235) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Uncivil wars -- All in the family: Paz and Garro rewrite Mexico's cultural memory -- War at home: Betrayals of/in the Mexican Revolution -- Love and war don't mix: Garro and Paz in the Spanish Civil War -- Tlatelolco: The undeclared war -- From civil war to gender war: The battle of the sexes.

Summary:

"The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916-1998) and Octavio Paz (1914-1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender."--Jacket.

Series:

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

ISBN:

0292737785 (e-book)
9780292737785 (e-book)
0292737777 (cl. : alk. paper)
9780292737778 (cl. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2012010950

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)