The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control

by Rebecca Janzen

Book Overview

The National Body in Mexican Literature presents a revisionist reading of the Mexican canon that challenges assumptions of State hegemony and national identity. It analyzes the representation of sick, disabled, and miraculously healed bodies in Mexican literature from 1940 to 1980 in narrative fiction by Vicente Le?ero, Juan Rulfo, among others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349576611
• ISBN13: 9781349576616
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"