Responding to Crisis in Contemporary Mexico: The Political Writings of Paz, Fuentes, Monsiváis, and Poniatowska

by Claire Brewster

Regarded as among modern Mexico's foremost creative writers, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Carlos Monsiv is, and Elena Poniatowska are also esteemed as analyzers of society, critics of public officials, and both molders and mirrors of public opinion. This book offers a reading of Mexican current affairs from 1968 to 1995 through a comparative study of these four writers' political work. In hundreds of articles, essays, and comments published...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816524912
• ISBN13: 9780816524914
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"