THE AMERICAS
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THE AMERICAS

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THE AMERICAS

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    Mexico City is one of Latin America's cultural capitals, and one of the most vibrant urban spaces in the world. The Mexico City Reader is an anthology of "Cronicas"—short, hybrid texts that are part literary essay, part urban reportage—about life in the capital. This is not the "City of Palaces" of yesteryear, but the vibrant, chaotic, anarchic urban space of the1980s and 1990s—the city of garbage mafias, necrophiliac artists, and kitschy millionaires.
    Like the visitor wandering through the city streets, the reader will be constantly surprised by the visions encountered in this mosaic of writings—a textual space brimming with life and crowded with flâneurs, flirtatious students, Indian dancers,
food vendors, fortune tellers, political activists, and peasant protesters.
    The essays included in this anthology were written by a panoply of writers, from well-known authors like Carlos MonsivĂĄis and Jorge IbagĂźengoitia to younger figures like Fabrizio MejĂ­a Madrid and Juieta GarcĂ­a GonzĂĄlez, all of whom are experienced practitioners of the city. The texts collected in this anthology are among the most striking examples of this concomitant "theory and practice" of Mexico City, that most delirious of megalopolises.
"[An] exciting literary journey..."—Carolyn Malloy, Multicultural Review

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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780299197131
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Collections
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Permissions
  5. Introduction: Delirious Mexico City
  6. 1. Mexico City on Paper
  7. 2. Places
  8. 3. The Metro
  9. 4. Monuments
  10. 5. Eating and Drinking
  11. 6. Urban Renewal/Urban Disasters
  12. 7. The Earthquake
  13. 8. Maids
  14. 9. Corruption and Bureaucracy
  15. 10. The Margins
  16. Bibliography
  17. Contributors
  18. Index of Mexico City Streets
  19. General Index