05123nam 2200685 a 450 991096405420332120250711195824.097866126381529780299197131029919713197812826381501282638157(CKB)2550000000019523(EBL)3445015(OCoLC)748357047(SSID)ssj0000423108(PQKBManifestationID)11310907(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000423108(PQKBWorkID)10438479(PQKB)11580583(OCoLC)654106842(MdBmJHUP)muse12376(Au-PeEL)EBL3445015(CaPaEBR)ebr10395909(CaONFJC)MIL263815(MiAaPQ)EBC3445015(Perlego)4453184(EXLCZ)99255000000001952320040713d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Mexico City reader /edited by Ruben Gallo ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox and Ruben Gallo1st ed.Madison, Wis. University of Wisconsin Pressc2004online resource (xvii, 346 pages) illustrationsThe AmericasDescription based upon print version of record.9780299197148 029919714X 9780299197100 0299197107 Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-329) and indexes.Introduction : delirious Mexico City / Ruben Gallo -- 1. Mexico City on paper -- Mexico, city of paper / Gonzalo Celorio -- 2. Places -- Insurgentes / Fabrizio Mejia Madrid -- Zona Rosa, 1965 / Vicente Lenero -- San Rafael / Gerardo Deniz -- Coyoacan I / Guillermo Sheridan -- Coyoacan II / Jorge Ibarguengoitia -- Division del Norte / Julieta Garcia Gonzalez -- Plaza satelite / Jose Joaquin Blanco -- Las Lomas I / Jose Joaquin Blanco -- Las Lomas II / Daniela Rossell -- 3. metro -- metro / Juan Villoro -- Voyage to the center of the city / Ricardo Garibay -- Metro insurgentes / Jose Joaquin Blanco -- metro : a voyage to the end of the squeeze / Carlos Monsivais -- 4. Monuments -- Monuments / Guillermo Sheridan -- La Diana / Vicente Lenero -- 5. Eating and drinking -- Chinese cafe / Jose de la Colina -- Armando's tortas / Jorge Ibarguengoitia -- Vips in the early morning / Jose Joaquin Blanco -- Nightlife / Carlos Monsivais -- 6. Urban renewal/urban disasters -- Call the doctor / Jorge Ibarguengoitia -- Tacubaya, 1978 / Jose Joaquin Blanco -- Avenida Alvaro Obregon, 1979 / Jose Joaquin Blanco -- San Juan de Letran / Jose Joaquin Blanco -- Ambulantes / Francis Alys -- Cuauhtemoc / Jose Joaquin Blanco -- "Who's there?" : the art of opening and closing the door / Jorge Ibarguengoitia -- Klaxons and the man / Jorge Ibarguengoitia -- 7. earthquake -- earthquake / Elena Poniatowska -- 8. Maids -- Maids I / Augusto Monterroso -- Maids II / Guadalupe Loaeza -- Chapultepec and the maids / Jose Joaquin Blanco -- 9. Corruption and bureaucracy -- Trimmins for the Comanche / Ricardo Garibay -- In the same boat / Ricardo Garibay -- university / Jonathan Hernandez -- 10. margins -- Garbage / Alma Guillermoprieto -- SEMEFO : the morgue / Cuauhtemoc Medina.Mexico City is one of Latin America's cultural capitals, and one of the most vibrant urban spaces in the world. The Mexico City Reader is an anthology of "Cronicas"-short, hybrid texts that are part literary essay, part urban reportage-about life in the capital. This is not the "City of Palaces" of yesteryear, but the vibrant, chaotic, anarchic urban space of the1980s and 1990s-the city of garbage mafias, necrophiliac artists, and kitschy millionaires. Like the visitor wandering through the city streets, the reader will be constantly surprised by the visions encountered in this mosaic of writings-a textual space brimming with life and crowded with flâneurs, flirtatious students, Indian dancers, food vendors, fortune tellers, political activists, and peasant protesters. The essays included in this anthology were written by a panoply of writers, from well-known authors like Carlos Monsiváis and Jorge Ibagüengoitia to younger figures like Fabrizio Mejía Madrid and Juieta García González, all of whom are experienced practitioners of the city. The texts collected in this anthology are among the most striking examples of this concomitant "theory and practice" of Mexico City, that most delirious of megalopolises. "[An] exciting literary journey..."-Carolyn Malloy, Multicultural ReviewAmericas (Madison, Wis.)Mexico City (Mexico)Description and travelMexico City (Mexico)Social life and customs20th century917.2/530482Gallo Rubén1638662Fox Lorna Scott1811121MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910964054203321The Mexico City reader4362787UNINA