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Author:

Janzen, Rebecca, 1985- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015027377

Title:

The national body in Mexican literature : collective challenges to biopolitical control / Rebecca Janzen.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

x, 199 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Mexican fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Revueltas, José,--1914-1976--Criticism and interpretation.
Rulfo, Juan--Criticism and interpretation.
Castellanos, Rosario--Criticism and interpretation.
People with disabilities in literature.
Politics and literature--Mexico.
Literature and society--Mexico.
Mexico--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The national body in Mexican literature -- Blindness in José Revueltas' narrative at the beginning of the Mexican miracle (1940-1946) -- Pedro Páramo's bad blood : bare life and exclusion from the Mexican miracle in Juan Rulfo's narrative (1946-1958) -- The Mexican state, Indigenismo, and Mestizaje: Rosario Castellano's Oficio de Tinieblas and Balún Canán (1957-1964) -- A Mexican savior can't work miracles: reflections on post-1968 Mexico -- Conclusion: crowds on Mexico City's subway: the ultimate challenge.

Summary:

"This book explores how the body literary fiction from 1940 to 1980, by José Revueltas, Juan Rulfo, Rosario Castellanos and Vicente Leñero, reflects the control of the Mexican State. It envisions characters who are sick, disabled or miraculously healed as a collective that challenges this control" -- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Literatures of the Americas

ISBN:

1137546271
9781137546272

OCLC:

(OCoLC)908698898

LCCN:

2015009959

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)