Lynn Stephen

Stories That Make History

Mexico Through Elena Poniatowska's Crónicas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Lynn Stephen examines the writing of Elena Poniatowska, showing how it shaped Mexican political discourse and provides a unique way of understanding contemporary Mexican history, politics, and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2021
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781478013716
• ISBN-10: 1478013710
• Artikelnr.: 60691950

Autorenporträt

Lynn Stephen

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations  vii
Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. On Testimony, Social Memory, and Strategic Emotional
Political Communities in Elena Poniatowska's Crónicas  1
1. Mexico City's Growing Critical Public: News and Publishing, 1959–1985 
31
2. The 1968 Student Movement and Massacre  60
3. A History We Cannot Forget: The 1985 Earthquake, Civil Society, and a
New Political Future  110
4. Engaging with the EZLN as a Writer and Public Intellectual  151
5. Amanecer en el Zócalo: Crónica, Diary, and Gendered Political Analysis 
197
6. ¡Regrésenlos! The Forty-Three Disappeared Students from Ayotzinapa  228
Conclusion: Telling Stories, Making History  247
Notes  257
Bibliography  281
Index  303