One of Mexico's foremost social and political chroniclers and its most celebrated cultural critic, Carlos Monsivais has read the pulse of his country over the past half century. The author of five collections of literary journalism pieces called cronicas, he is perhaps best known for his analytic and often satirical descriptions of Mexico City's popular culture.

This comprehensive study of Monsivais's cronicas is the first book to offer an analysis of these works and to place Monsivais's work within a theoretical framework that recognizes the importance of his vision...

The thirteen original essays in this collection explore the Mexican point of view from the 1920s to the present in order to register often unheard voices in the complex cross-border, cross-cultural reality shared by the two nations. The contributors, all of whom have personal experience with the challenges of bi-cultural and bi-national living, discuss travel writing, novels, film, essays, political cartoons, and Mexican sociocultural movements.

In a time of ever-increasing migration of capital and human beings, this book turns on its head the usual perspective of U.S. economic and cultural...

The thirteen original essays in this collection explore the Mexican point of view from the 1920s to the present in order to register often unheard voices in the complex cross-border, cross-cultural reality shared by the two nations. The contributors, all of whom have personal experience with the challenges of bi-cultural and bi-national living, discuss travel writing, novels, film, essays, political cartoons, and Mexican sociocultural movements.

In a time of ever-increasing migration of capital and human beings, this book turns on its head the usual perspective of U.S. economic and cultural...