The Mexico City reader / edited by Ruben Gallo ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox and Ruben Gallo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gallo, Rubén.

Fox, Lorna Scott.

Series:

Americas (Madison, Wis.)

The Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexico City (Mexico)--Description and travel.

Mexico City (Mexico).

Mexico City (Mexico)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Physical Description:

online resource (xvii, 346 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Monsiváis and Jorge Ibagüengoitia to younger figures like Fabrizio Mejía Madrid and Juieta García González, 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

Contents:

Introduction : delirious Mexico City / Ruben Gallo

1. Mexico City on paper

Mexico, city of paper / Gonzalo Celorio

2. Places

Insurgentes / Fabrizio Mejia Madrid

Zona Rosa, 1965 / Vicente Lenero

San Rafael / Gerardo Deniz

Coyoacan I / Guillermo Sheridan

Coyoacan II / Jorge Ibarguengoitia

Division del Norte / Julieta Garcia Gonzalez

Plaza satelite / Jose Joaquin Blanco

Las Lomas I / Jose Joaquin Blanco

Las Lomas II / Daniela Rossell

3. metro

metro / Juan Villoro

Voyage to the center of the city / Ricardo Garibay

Metro insurgentes / Jose Joaquin Blanco

metro : a voyage to the end of the squeeze / Carlos Monsivais

4. Monuments

Monuments / Guillermo Sheridan

La Diana / Vicente Lenero

5. Eating and drinking

Chinese cafe / Jose de la Colina

Armando's tortas / Jorge Ibarguengoitia

Vips in the early morning / Jose Joaquin Blanco

Nightlife / Carlos Monsivais

6. Urban renewal/urban disasters

Call the doctor / Jorge Ibarguengoitia

Tacubaya, 1978 / Jose Joaquin Blanco

Avenida Alvaro Obregon, 1979 / Jose Joaquin Blanco

San Juan de Letran / Jose Joaquin Blanco

Ambulantes / Francis Alys

Cuauhtemoc / Jose Joaquin Blanco

"Who's there?" : the art of opening and closing the door / Jorge Ibarguengoitia

Klaxons and the man / Jorge Ibarguengoitia

7. earthquake

earthquake / Elena Poniatowska

8. Maids

Maids I / Augusto Monterroso

Maids II / Guadalupe Loaeza

Chapultepec and the maids / Jose Joaquin Blanco

9. Corruption and bureaucracy

Trimmins for the Comanche / Ricardo Garibay

In the same boat / Ricardo Garibay

university / Jonathan Hernandez

10. margins

Garbage / Alma Guillermoprieto

SEMEFO : the morgue / Cuauhtemoc Medina.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-329) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612638152

9780299197131

0299197131

9781282638150

1282638157

OCLC:

748357047