LEADER 03833nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910818186603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-73778-5 024 7 $a10.7560/737778 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104276 035 $a(OCoLC)800935907 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10572651 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000685884 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11429546 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000685884 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10717729 035 $a(PQKB)10995018 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443605 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17575 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443605 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10572651 035 $a(OCoLC)932314259 035 $a(DE-B1597)587371 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292737785 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104276 100 $a20120320d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUncivil wars $eElena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the battle for cultural memory /$fby Sandra Messinger Cypess 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 225 1 $aJoe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-73777-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Uncivil wars -- All in the family: Paz and Garro rewrite Mexico's cultural memory -- War at home: Betrayals of/in the Mexican Revolution -- Love and war don't mix: Garro and Paz in the Spanish Civil War -- Tlatelolco: The undeclared war -- From civil war to gender war: The battle of the sexes. 330 $aThe first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916?1998) and Octavio Paz (1914?1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender. While Paz?s privileged, prize-winning legacy has endured worldwide, Garro?s literary gifts garnered no international prizes and received less attention in Latin American literary circles. Restoring a dual perspective on these two dynamic writers and their world, Uncivil Wars chronicles a collective memory of wars that shaped Mexico, and in turn shaped Garro and Paz, from the Conquest period to the Mexican Revolution; the Spanish Civil War, which the couple witnessed while traveling abroad; and the student massacre at Tlatelolco Plaza in 1968, which brought about social and political changes and further tensions in the battle of the sexes. The cultural contexts of machismo and ethnicity provide an equally rich ground for Sandra Cypess?s exploration of the tandem between the writers? personal lives and their literary production. Uncivil Wars illuminates the complexities of Mexican society as seen through a tense marriage of two talented, often oppositional writers. The result is an alternative interpretation of the myths and realities that have shaped Mexican identity, and its literary soul, well into the twenty-first century. 410 0$aJoe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture. 606 $aNational characteristics, Mexican, in literature 606 $aCollective memory$zMexico 615 0$aNational characteristics, Mexican, in literature. 615 0$aCollective memory 676 $a868/.6409 700 $aCypess$b Sandra Messinger$01601003 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818186603321 996 $aUncivil wars$93924396 997 $aUNINA