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Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City brings
the humanities and the social sciences into a conversation about
Mexico City in its social, political, and aesthetic manifestations.
Through a shared exploration of the order and disorder that
mutually constitute the city, contributing authors engage topics
such as the privatization of public space, challenges to existing
conceptualizations of the urban form, and variations on the flaneur
and other urban actors. Mexico City is truly a city of versions,
and Mapping the Megalopolis celebrates the intersection of the
image of the city and the lived experience of it. Readers will find
substantive entries on a great variety of Mexico City's monumental
and counter-monumental spaces, as well as some of its pivotal
contemporary debates and cultural products. The volume serves both
as supplemental reading on the world city or the Latin American
city, and as a central text in a multidisciplinary study of Mexico
City.
The Ties That Bind comprises the first collection of critical
essays that explore the family system in Spanish and Latin American
culture. This thought-provoking volume addresses the intersection
of language, narrative structure, social reality, and family
dynamics through examples from a diverse range of literary works,
including Cervantes' Don Quijote, Reinaldo Arenas' Celestino antes
del alba, and the Chicano film My Family/Mi Familia. Issues of
feminism, gender and sexuality, abuse, trauma, and communication
take the forefront in this ground-breaking book, which takes
psychological literary criticism a step beyond traditional
psychoanalytical approaches.
Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives
and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America
between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features
thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose
works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who
have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies.
Focusing on drama, poetry, and fiction, this work includes authors
who have published at least three literary texts that have had a
significant impact on Latin American literature and culture. Each
entry is followed by extensive bibliographic references, including
primary and secondary sources. Coverage consists of critical
appreciation and analysis of the writers' works. Brief biographical
data is included, but the main focus is on the meanings and
contexts of the works as well as their cultural and political
impact. In addition to author entries, other themes are explored,
such as humor in contemporary Latin American fiction, lesbian
literature in Latin America, magic, realism, or mother images in
Latin American literature. The aim is to provide a unique,
thorough, scholarly survey of women writers and their works in
Latin America. This Encyclopedia will be of interest to both to the
student of literature as well as to any reader interested in
understanding more about Latin American culture, literature, and
how women have represented gender and national issues throughout
the centuries.
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