LEADER 03811nam 22006014a 450 001 9910812690103321 005 20230617011115.0 010 $a0-292-79856-3 024 7 $a10.7560/760578 035 $a(CKB)111090425017266 035 $a(OCoLC)300725531 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245697 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000129577 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11137280 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129577 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10100202 035 $a(PQKB)10314018 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443225 035 $a(OCoLC)55889741 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2000 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443225 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245697 035 $a(DE-B1597)588245 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292798564 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090425017266 100 $a20020715d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Contempora?neos Group$b[electronic resource] $erewriting Mexico in the thirties and forties /$fSalvador A. Oropesa 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-76057-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [157]-167) and index. 327 $aNeo-baroque -- Gay and baroque literatures -- Satiric poetry -- Agusti?n Lazo (1896-1971) : Xavier Villaurrutia's Shadow -- Guadalupe Mari?n : the madwoman in the murals -- Gossip, power, and the culture of celebrity. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aContempora?neos (Group of writers) 606 $aMexican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aContempora?neos (Group of writers) 615 0$aMexican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a863/.609972 700 $aOropesa$b Salvador A.$f1961-$01679629 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812690103321 996 $aThe Contempora?neos Group$94048025 997 $aUNINA