Dancing on the Sun Stone
Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio Paz
- 152 pages
- English
- PDF
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About This Book
Dancing on the Sun Stone is a uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore women's lives and gendered politics in Mexico. In this important work, scholar Marjorie Becker focuses on the complex Mexican women of rural MichoacĂĄn who performed an illicit revolutionary dance and places it in dialogue with Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz's signature poem, "Sun Stone"âallowing a new gendered history to emerge. Through this dialogue, the women reveal intimate and intellectual complexities of Mexican women's gendered voices, their histories, and their intimate and public lives. The work further demonstrates the ways these women, in dialogue with Paz, transformed history itself. Becker's multigenre work reconstructs Mexican history through the temporal experiences of crucial MichoacĂĄn females, experiences that culminate in their complex revolutionary dance, which itself emerges as a transformative revolutionary language.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Walking Into History: When Women Made Tortillas, Danced, and Reconfigured Time
- Chapter 2. From Killing Stone to Gendered Time-Scape: Octavio Paz and the Making of the âSun Stoneâ
- Chapter 3. Dancing on the Sun Stone
- Chapter 4. The Dance of Pazâs Legacy
- Coda. Dancing with the Dancers
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index