Revisiting the Mexican Student Movement of 1968: Shifting Perspectives in Literature and Culture Since Tlatelolco

ISBN-13: 9781137559876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 191 str.

Juan J. Rojo

Opis

Tracing the evolution of Mexican literary and cultural production following the Tlatelolco massacre, this book shows its progression from a homogeneous construct set on establishing the "true" history of Tlatelolco against the version of the State, to a more nuanced and complex series of historical narratives. The initial representations of the events of 1968 were essentially limited to that of the State and that of the Consejo Nacional de Huelga (National Strike Council) and only later incorporated novels and films. Juan J. Rojo examines the manner in which films, posters, testimonios, and the Memorial del 68 expanded the boundaries of those initial articulations to a more democratic representation of key participants in the student movement of 1968.

Spis treści

Introduction Silencing the Storm: The Never-Ending Search for Truth after Tlatelolco

Chapter 1 Testimonio as Metahistory in González de Alba’s Los días y los años

Chapter 2 At the Center of the Periphery: Arretche’s El grito and the Rhizomatic Visual                         Discourse of the 1968 Student Movement

Chapter 3 Cárcel de mujeres: Gender and Gendering in “La Tita” Avendaño’s De la libertad y el                   encierro

Chapter 4 The Specters Come Back to Life: Rojo amanecer and El Bulto

Chapter 5 Looking Back After 40 Years: El Memorial del 68

Conclusion

O autorze

Juan J. Rojo is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Lafayette College, USA.