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Documents in Crisis

Jörgensen, Beth E

2011

Overview

Winner of the 2012 Best Book in the Humanities presented by the Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association In the turbulent twentieth century, large numbers of Mexicans of all social classes faced crisis and catastrophe on a seemingly continuous basis. Revolution, earthquakes, industrial disasters, political and labor unrest, as well as indigenous insurgency placed extraordinary pressures on collective and individual identity. In contemporary literary studies, nonfiction literatures have received scant attention compared to the more supposedly \"creative\" practices of fictional narrative, poetry, and drama. In Documents in Crisis , Beth E. Jörgensen examines a selection of both canonical and lesser-known examples of narrative nonfiction that were written in response to these crises, including the autobiography, memoir, historical essay, testimony, chronicle, and ethnographic life narrative. She addresses the relative neglect of Mexican nonfiction in criticism and theory and demonstrates its continuing relevance for writers and readers who, in spite of the contemporary blurring of boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, remain fascinated by literatures of fact.

• Publisher: SUNY Press,State University of New York Press
• Subject: 20th century / Autobiography / Caribbean & Latin American / Historiography / History / HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico / History and criticism / History in literature / Language & Literature / Latin American Studies / Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies : Latin American Studies / LITERARY CRITICISM / LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American / Literature : Literary Criticism / Literature : Literary Theory / Literature and history / Mexican authors / Mexican prose literature / Mexico / Sources / Spanish & Portuguese literatures
• ISBN: 1438439407, 9781438439402, 9781438439389, 1438439385, 1438439393, 9781438439396