The Mexico City Reader (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780299197148)

The Mexico City Reader is an anthology of cronicas - short texts that are a cross between literary essay and urban reportage - about life in Mexico City today. This is not the City of Palaces of yesteryear, but the vibrant, chaotic, anarchic city of the 1980s and 1990s - the city of garbage mafias, corrupt ex-presidents, and spectacular crime. Taken together in all their variety, these texts form a mosiac of life in Mexico City. Like the visitor wandering through the city streets, the reader should expect to be constantly surprised. vibrant urban spaces in the world. Like the streets of the city, The Mexico City Reader is brimming with life, crowded with flaneurs, flirtatious students, Indian dancers, food vendors, fortune tellers, political activists, and peasant protesters. The writers include expert theorists - a panoply of writers from Carlos Monsivais and Jorge Ibaguengoitia to Fabrizio Mejia Madrid and Juieta Garcia Gonzalez - brought together precisely because they are experienced practitioners of the city.

Author: Ruben Gallo
ISBN-10: 029919714X
ISBN-13: 9780299197148
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2004
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.88h x 6.08w x 0.89d

Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 09/01/2005 pg. 98
Library Journal 10/15/2004 pg. 79