Merrim A Latin American Existentialist Ethos

Modern Mexican Literature and Philosophy
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9320-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 263 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Examines twentieth-century Mexican literature and philosophy within the broad panorama of Latin American and European existentialisms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Merrim, Stephanie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
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
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephanie 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.