Dancing on the Sun Stone: Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio Paz

by Marjorie Becker

Book Overview

Dancing on the Sun Stone is a uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore women's lives and gendered politics in Mexico. In this important work, scholar Marjorie Becker focuses on the complex Mexican women of rural Michoac n who performed an illicit revolutionary dance and places it in dialogue with Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz's signature poem, "Sun Stone"--allowing a new gendered history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826364187
• ISBN13: 9780826364180
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"