The Mexico City Reader
by
Ruben Gallo
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
029919714X
ISBN-13
9780299197148
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint
University of Wisconsin Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 30th, 2004
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
503 grams
Dimensions
22.50 x 15.40 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
AnthologiesAnthologies (non-poetry)Social & cultural historySocial and cultural history
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An anthology of cronicas - short texts that are a cross between literary essays and urban reportage - about life in Mexico City today.
The Mexico City Reader is an anthology of ""cronicas"" - short texts that are a cross between literary essay and urban reportage - about life in Mexico City today. This is not the ""City of Palaces"" of yesteryear, but the vibrant, chaotic, anarchic city of the 1980s and 1990s - the city of garbage mafias, corrupt ex-presidents, and spectacular crime. Taken together in all their variety, these texts form a mosiac of life in Mexico City. Like the visitor wandering through the city streets, the reader should expect to be constantly surprised. Mexico City is one of Latin America''s cultural capitals, and one of the most vibrant urban spaces in the world. Like the streets of the city, The Mexico City Reader is brimming with life, crowded with flaneurs, flirtatious students, Indian dancers, food vendors, fortune tellers, political activists, and peasant protesters. The writers include expert theorists - a panoply of writers from Carlos Monsivais and Jorge Ibaguengoitia to Fabrizio Mejia Madrid and Juieta Garcia Gonzalez - brought together precisely because they are experienced practitioners of the city.
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