The Contemporáneos Group : rewriting Mexico in the thirties and forties
著者
書誌事項
The Contemporáneos Group : rewriting Mexico in the thirties and forties
University of Texas Press, 2003
1st ed
- : hardcover
大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全1件
-
該当する所蔵館はありません
- すべての絞り込み条件を解除する
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-167) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In the years following the Mexican Revolution, a nationalist and masculinist image of Mexico emerged through the novels of the Revolution, the murals of Diego Rivera, and the movies of Golden Age cinema. Challenging this image were the Contemporaneos, a group of writers whose status as outsiders (sophisticated urbanites, gay men, women) gave them not just a different perspective, but a different gaze, a new way of viewing the diverse Mexicos that exist within Mexican society. In this book, Salvador Oropesa offers original readings of the works of five Contemporaneos-Salvador Novo, Xavier Villaurrutia, Agustin Lazo, Guadalupe Marin, and Jorge Cuesta-and their efforts to create a Mexican literature that was international, attuned to the realities of modern Mexico, and flexible enough to speak to the masses as well as the elites. Oropesa discusses Novo and Villaurrutia in relation to neo-baroque literature and satiric poetry, showing how these inherently subversive genres provided the means of expressing difference and otherness that they needed as gay men.
He explores the theatrical works of Lazo, Villaurrutia's partner, who offered new representations of the closet and of Mexican history from an emerging middle-class viewpoint. Oropesa also looks at women's participation in the Contemporaneos through Guadalupe Marin, the sometime wife of Diego Rivera and Jorge Cuesta, whose novels present women's struggles to have a view and a voice of their own. He concludes the book with Novo's self-transformation from intellectual into celebrity, which fulfilled the Contemporaneos' desire to merge high and popular culture and create a space where those on the margins could move to the center.
目次
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Neo-Baroque 2. Gay and Baroque Literatures 3. Satiric Poetry 4. Agustin Lazo (1896-1971): Xavier Villaurrutia's Shadow 5. Guadalupe Marin: The Madwoman in the Murals 6. Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity Notes Bibliography Index
「Nielsen BookData」 より