Chapters 1 and 5 were part of Historia y celebracioĢn (two editions, Mexico City, 2009, and Barcelona, 2010, both published by Tusquets). Different versions of chapters 2, 3, 7, and 9 were published in Culturas y memoria (Mexico City: Tusquets, 2012). A preliminary version of chapter 4 was published in the magazine Letras Libres; a shorter, different version of chapter 6 was published in Nexos; parts of an early version of chapter 8 were published in Public Culture (19, no. 3, 2007); and chapter 10 was extracted from Maldita lengua (Madrid: La Huerta Grande, 2016). -- Provided by the publisher. Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260).
Contents:
The laws of history -- Poetry and history -- The historical imagination -- Reading history today -- Celebrating history : between ser and estar -- Self-history and autobiography -- Six life stories by heart -- Polyglotism and monolingualism -- Amar queriendo como en otro tiempo : language, memory, and boleros -- Wicked tongue (extracts).
Series:
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
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