LEADER 05123nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910964054203321 005 20250711195824.0 010 $a9786612638152 010 $a9780299197131 010 $a0299197131 010 $a9781282638150 010 $a1282638157 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019523 035 $a(EBL)3445015 035 $a(OCoLC)748357047 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000423108 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11310907 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000423108 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10438479 035 $a(PQKB)11580583 035 $a(OCoLC)654106842 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12376 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3445015 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10395909 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL263815 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3445015 035 $a(Perlego)4453184 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019523 100 $a20040713d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe Mexico City reader /$fedited by Ruben Gallo ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox and Ruben Gallo 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison, Wis. $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2004 215 $aonline resource (xvii, 346 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aThe Americas 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780299197148 311 08$a029919714X 311 08$a9780299197100 311 08$a0299197107 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 327-329) and indexes. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 8 $aMexico City is one of Latin America's cultural capitals, and one of the most vibrant urban spaces in the world. The Mexico City Reader is an anthology of "Cronicas"-short, hybrid texts that are part literary essay, part urban reportage-about life in the capital. This is not the "City of Palaces" of yesteryear, but the vibrant, chaotic, anarchic urban space of the1980s and 1990s-the city of garbage mafias, necrophiliac artists, and kitschy millionaires. Like the visitor wandering through the city streets, the reader will be constantly surprised by the visions encountered in this mosaic of writings-a textual space brimming with life and crowded with fla?neurs, flirtatious students, Indian dancers, food vendors, fortune tellers, political activists, and peasant protesters. The essays included in this anthology were written by a panoply of writers, from well-known authors like Carlos Monsiva?is and Jorge Ibagu?engoitia to younger figures like Fabrizio Meji?a Madrid and Juieta Garci?a Gonza?lez, all of whom are experienced practitioners of the city. The texts collected in this anthology are among the most striking examples of this concomitant "theory and practice" of Mexico City, that most delirious of megalopolises. "[An] exciting literary journey..."-Carolyn Malloy, Multicultural Review 410 0$aAmericas (Madison, Wis.) 607 $aMexico City (Mexico)$xDescription and travel 607 $aMexico City (Mexico)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century 676 $a917.2/530482 701 $aGallo$b Rube?n$01638662 701 $aFox$b Lorna Scott$01811121 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910964054203321 996 $aThe Mexico City reader$94362787 997 $aUNINA