Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America : : The Shared Intimacy of Everyday Life / / Viviane Mahieux.

An unstructured genre that blends high aesthetic standards with nonfiction commentary, the journalistic crónica, or chronicle, has played a vital role in Latin American urban life since the nineteenth century. Drawing on extensive archival research, Viviane Mahieux delivers new testimony on how chro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2011
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Cities, Publics, and Urban Chroniclers in Latin America 1920s–1930s
  • Chapter 2. A Common Citizen Writes Buenos Aires: Roberto Arlt’s Aguafuertes porteñas
  • Chapter 3. Taking Readers for a Ride: Mário de Andrade’s Táxi
  • Chapter 4. The Chronicler as Streetwalker: Salvador Novo Performs Genre
  • Chapter 5. Overstepping Femininity: The Chronicle and Gender Norms
  • Afterword
  • Appendices
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index