The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle: Theoretical Perspectives on the Liminal Genre

by Corona, Ignacio; Jorgensen, Beth Ellen

• ISBN13: 9780791453537
• ISBN10: 0791453537
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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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