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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Stephanie MerrimPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438493190ISBN 10: 1438493193 Pages: 263 Publication Date: 01 May 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Translations 1. Engaging Existentialism: Transformative Possibilities and Local Agendas 2. The Mexican Existentialist Ethos 3. The Seminal Mexican Existentialism of Rodolfo Usigli’s Theater 4. Excavating Comala: The Existentialist Juan Rulfo, the Grupo Hiperión, and Lo Mexicano in Pedro Páramo (1955) 5. “Christs for All Passions”: José Revueltas’s El luto humano [Human Mourning] 6. Rosario Castellanos’s Freedom Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsStephanie Merrim offers a long overdue and profound reconsideration of the reception and influence of existentialism, a major modern philosophical current, in the intellectual life of Mexico. This book produces not just a historical account of a significant episode in Spanish American culture but itself exemplifies a turn to existentialist ideas and concerns in contemporary criticism and theory. This is a deeply thought-out and thoroughly researched work that renews our appreciation of authors many of us thought we knew quite well, such as Rulfo and Castellanos, and argues for the current relevance of less studied writers such as the playwright Rodolfo Usigli and the novelist and activist Jose Revueltas. - Anibal Gonzalez, author of In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel Author InformationStephanie Merrim is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies at Brown University. She is the author of several books including Early Modern Women’s Writing and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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