The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle: Theoretical Perspectives on the Liminal Genre (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture) - Tapa blanda

"It is amazing that there are almost no studies of the genre of the 'crónica.' The radical reformulation of the essay format and sharp analytic commentaries about contemporary Mexico have made crónica one of the most signal genres of the late twentieth century. This book provides a thorough introduction, tracing the crónica's historical roots, giving a very well conceived argument about the contributions of the contemporary crónica, along with close readings of specific texts. This volume fills an important gap and will become a standard reference." -- Debra A. Castillo, author of Easy Women: Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction