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Uncivil Wars: Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory

Uncivil Wars: Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Sandra Messinger CypessSeries:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Latin American and Latino Art and CulturePublish date:2012-08-01Pages:261
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9780292754287ISBN-10:292754280UPC:9780292754287Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, Gender StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SCY82HTEDY

The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916-1998) and Octavio Paz (1914-1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender.

While Paz's privileged, prize-winning legacy has endured worldwide, Garro's literary gifts garnered no international prizes and received less attention in Latin American literary circles. Restoring a dual perspective on these two dynamic writers and their world, Uncivil Wars chronicles a collective memory of wars that shaped Mexico, and in turn shaped Garro and Paz, from the Conquest period to the Mexican Revolution; the Spanish Civil War, which the couple witnessed while traveling abroad; and the student massacre at Tlatelolco Plaza in 1968, which brought about social and political changes and further tensions in the battle of the sexes. The cultural contexts of machismo and ethnicity provide an equally rich ground for Sandra Cypess's exploration of the tandem between the writers' personal lives and their literary production. Uncivil Wars illuminates the complexities of Mexican society as seen through a tense marriage of two talented, often oppositional writers. The result is an alternative interpretation of the myths and realities that have shaped Mexican identity, and its literary soul, well into the twenty-first century.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9780292754287ISBN-10:292754280UPC:9780292754287Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, Gender StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SCY82HTEDY

Sandra Messinger Cypess is Professor of Latin American Literature, an Affiliate in Comparative Literature and Performance Studies, and former Chair of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland. Her previous books include La Malinche in Mexican Literature: From History to Myth, a canonical text in the field of Mexican cultural studies and gender studies.


Publisher: University of Texas Press

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