The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle: Theoretical Perspectives on the Liminal Genre
by Corona, Ignacio; Jorgensen, Beth EllenFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-08-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Author Biography
Ignacio Corona is Assistant Professor of Spanish at The Ohio State University Beth E. Jorgensen is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Rochester
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Chronicle Writing: Reflections on Contemporary Practice | |
| On the Chronicle in Mexico | p. 25 |
| How I Started Writing Chronicles and Why I Never Stopped | p. 37 |
| Patience and Urgency | p. 47 |
| Border(line) Texts: The Chronicle, Writing in the Open | p. 51 |
| Questioning the Chronicle | p. 61 |
| Theoretical Perspectives on the Liminal Genre | |
| Matters of Fact: The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle and/as Nonfiction Narrative | p. 71 |
| Play on Words: Chronicling the Essay | p. 95 |
| At the Intersection: Chronicle and Ethnography | p. 123 |
| Modernismo, Journalism, and the Ethics of Writing: Manuel Gutierrez Najera's "La hija del aire" | p. 157 |
| Writing the City: The Chronicles of Salvador Novo | p. 181 |
| Walking in the Modern City: Subjectivity and Cultural Contacts in the Urban Cronicas of Salvador Novo and Carlos Monsivais | p. 201 |
| Cristina Pacheco's Narratives: Multimedia Chronicles | p. 221 |
| Afterword | |
| Introduction | p. 243 |
| The Rainforest Chronicles of Subcomandante Marcos | p. 245 |
| Contributor's Biographies | p. 257 |
| Index | p. 261 |
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