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Edited by Rubén Gallo</h1>
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<p><b><span size="+2" face="Arial, Helvetica,
Times New Roman" color="#cc0000">The Mexico
City Reader<br>
</span></b><span face="Arial">Edited by Rubén
Gallo</span></p>
<p><span size="-1" face="Arial">The Americas<br>
Ilan Stavans, Series Editor, Irene Vilar,
Associate Editor</span><b><span face="Arial">The
first in The Americas new series of
illustrated city readers</span></b><span
face="Arial">"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 <i>Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and
Modernity</i></span></p>
<p><span face="Arial">Mexico City is one of Latin
America's cultural capitals, and one of the
most vibrant urban spaces in the world. <i>The
Mexico City Reader </i>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.</span></p>
<p> 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 <i>flâneurs</i>, flirtatious
students, Indian dancers, food vendors, fortune
tellers, political activists, and peasant
protesters.</p>
<p> 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.</p>
<p><b><span face="Arial">Rubén Gallo </span></b><span
face="Arial">is assistant professor of Latin
American literature in the department of
Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures
at Princeton University.</span></p>
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class="n3VNCb" data-noaft="1" style="width:
333px; height: 499px; margin: 0px;"><span
id="pubdate" size="-1" face="Arial"><strong>October
2004<br>
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LC: 2004016474 F<br>
368 pp. 6 x 9 68 b/w illus.</span></p>
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