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*The Mexico City Reader
*Edited by Rubén Gallo

The Americas
Ilan Stavans, Series Editor, Irene Vilar, Associate Editor*The first in
The Americas new series of illustrated city readers*"In spite of its
size, its proximity to the United States, and its extraordinarily
vibrant cultural life, Mexico City remains almost invisible as a
literary locale to North American readers who do not know Spanish. Rubén
Gallo undertakes to fill this gap with his anthology of writings about
the city, and he does so with great skill, insight, and verve."—Maarten
van Delden, author of /Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity/

Mexico City is one of Latin America's cultural capitals, and one of the
most vibrant urban spaces in the world. /The Mexico City Reader /is an
anthology of "Cronicas"—short, hybrid texts that are part literary
essay, part urban reportage—about life in the capital. This is not the
"City of Palaces" of yesteryear, but the vibrant, chaotic, anarchic
urban space of the 1980s and 1990s—the city of garbage mafias,
necrophiliac artists, and kitschy millionaires.

Like the visitor wandering through the city streets, the reader will be
constantly surprised by the visions encountered in this mosaic of
writings—a textual space brimming with life and crowded with /flâneurs/,
flirtatious students, Indian dancers, food vendors, fortune tellers,
political activists, and peasant protesters.

The essays in this anthology about this most delirious of megalopolises
were written by a panoply of writers, from well-known authors like
Carlos Monsiváis and Jorge Ibagüengoitia to younger figures like
Fabrizio Mejía Madrid and Julieta García González.

*Rubén Gallo *is assistant professor of Latin American literature in the
department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures at Princeton
University.

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The Mexico City Reader (The Americas Series): Ruben Gallo, Lorna Scott
Fox, Ruben Gallo: 9780299197148: Amazon.com: Books*October 2004
*LC: 2004016474 F
368 pp.    6 x 9     68 b/w illus.

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