The National Body in Mexican Literature
Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control
Palgrave Macmillan · Print & ebook · September 10, 2015
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- Who it’s for
- Rebecca Janzen rereads Mexican literature from 1940 to 1980 through bodies and national identity.
- Genres
- Caribbean & Latin American Criticism, 20th-Century Literary Criticism, Hispanic American Lit Crit
- Published
- Palgrave Macmillan, September 10, 2015
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The National Body in Mexican Literature presents a revisionist reading of the Mexican canon that challenges assumptions of State hegemony and national identity. It analyzes the representation of sick, disabled, and miraculously healed bodies in Mexican literature from 1940 to 1980 in narrative fiction by Vicente Leñero, Juan Rulfo, among others.
Bodies in Mexican Literature
Rebecca Janzen rereads Mexican literature from 1940 to 1980 through bodies and national identity.
Come here for
- Sick, disabled, and miraculously healed bodies in Mexican literature
- Fiction by Vicente Leñero, Juan Rulfo, and others
Expect
- A challenge to assumptions about state power and national identity
- Narrative fiction examined across four decades
Where it sits
| Caribbean & Latin American Criticism | 65% |
|---|---|
| Hispanic American Lit Crit | 56% |
| 20th-Century Literary Criticism | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Linguistics
- Authors
- Rebecca Janzen, Meagher
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- September 10, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Linguistics