03815nam 22006014a 450 991078032840332120230617011115.00-292-79856-310.7560/760578(CKB)111090425017266(OCoLC)300725531(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245697(SSID)ssj0000129577(PQKBManifestationID)11137280(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129577(PQKBWorkID)10100202(PQKB)10314018(MiAaPQ)EBC3443225(OCoLC)55889741(MdBmJHUP)muse2000(Au-PeEL)EBL3443225(CaPaEBR)ebr10245697(DE-B1597)588245(DE-B1597)9780292798564(EXLCZ)9911109042501726620020715d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe Contemporáneos Group[electronic resource] rewriting Mexico in the thirties and forties /Salvador A. Oropesa1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20031 online resource (192 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-76057-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-167) and index.Neo-baroque -- Gay and baroque literatures -- Satiric poetry -- Agustín Lazo (1896-1971) : Xavier Villaurrutia's Shadow -- Guadalupe Marín : the madwoman in the murals -- Gossip, power, and the culture of celebrity.In the years following the Mexican Revolution, a nationalist and masculinist image of Mexico emerged through the novels of the Revolution, the murals of Diego Rivera, and the movies of Golden Age cinema. Challenging this image were the Contemporáneos, a group of writers whose status as outsiders (sophisticated urbanites, gay men, women) gave them not just a different perspective, but a different gaze, a new way of viewing the diverse Mexicos that exist within Mexican society. In this book, Salvador Oropesa offers original readings of the works of five Contemporáneos—Salvador Novo, Xavier Villaurrutia, Agustín Lazo, Guadalupe Marín, and Jorge Cuesta—and their efforts to create a Mexican literature that was international, attuned to the realities of modern Mexico, and flexible enough to speak to the masses as well as the elites. Oropesa discusses Novo and Villaurrutia in relation to neo-baroque literature and satiric poetry, showing how these inherently subversive genres provided the means of expressing difference and otherness that they needed as gay men. He explores the theatrical works of Lazo, Villaurrutia's partner, who offered new representations of the closet and of Mexican history from an emerging middle-class viewpoint. Oropesa also looks at women's participation in the Contemporáneos through Guadalupe Marín, the sometime wife of Diego Rivera and Jorge Cuesta, whose novels present women's struggles to have a view and a voice of their own. He concludes the book with Novo's self-transformation from intellectual into celebrity, which fulfilled the Contemporáneos' desire to merge high and popular culture and create a space where those on the margins could move to the center.Contemporáneos (Group of writers)Mexican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismContemporáneos (Group of writers)Mexican literatureHistory and criticism.863/.609972Oropesa Salvador A.1961-1491731MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780328403321The Contemporáneos Group3713680UNINA