Documents in crisis : nonfiction literatures in twentieth-century Mexico / Beth E. Jorgensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jorgensen, Beth Ellen.

Series:

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Mexican prose literature.

Literature and history.

Autobiography--Mexican authors--History and criticism.

Autobiography.

History in literature.

Mexico--History--20th century--Sources.

Mexico.

Mexico--History--20th century--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Nonfiction literatures in twentieth-century Mexico

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines the theory and practice of nonfiction narrative literature in twentieth-century Mexico.

Contents:

The distinction of nonfiction

Writing the Mexican Revolution of 1910

Living stories, telling lives: autobiographical writings of Jose Vasconcelos and María Luisa Puga

Life writing from a popular perspective

Chronicling crisis: late twentieth-century manifestations of the literature of encounter

Making history: Subcomandante Marcos in the Mexican chronicle

Conclusions.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438439402

1438439407

OCLC:

775361507