A Latin American Existentialist Ethos : Modern Mexican Literature and Philosophy.
Examines twentieth-century Mexican literature and philosophy within the broad panorama of Latin American and European existentialisms.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2023.
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| Edició: | 1st ed. |
| Col·lecció: | SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture Ser.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252482 |
Taula de continguts:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translations
- Chapter One Engaging Existentialism: Transformative Possibilities and Local Agendas
- An Engaging Existentialism
- A Literature of Possibilities
- Mexican Platforms
- A Latin American Existentialist Ethos: Modern Mexican Literature and Philosophy
- Chapter Two The Mexican Existentialist Ethos
- Part One
- Movers and Shakers
- The Mexican Existentialist Arena
- Part Two
- Hiperión and Values
- Conclusion: Weaponizing Lo Mexicano?
- Chapter Three The Seminal Mexican Existentialism of Rodolfo Usigli's Theater
- Existentializing Dynamics
- Philosophical Drives
- Political Drives
- From the Family to the Revolutionary Family
- The Mexican Existentialist Hero: Pragmatic Authenticity and Emilio Uranga's Zozobra
- Chapter Four Excavating Comala: The Existentialist Juan Rulfo, the Grupo Hiperión, and Lo Mexicano in Pedro Páramo (1955)
- An Existentialist Rulfo?
- An Unresolved Past
- Excavating Lo Indígena
- Deep Mexico and Racial Politics
- Deep Magic: Finale
- Chapter Five "Christs for All Passions": José Revueltas's El luto humano [Human Mourning]
- "Le daban duro con un palo y duro" [They struck him hard with a stick, so hard] (César Vallejo, Poemas humanos, "Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca")
- "Su cadáver estaba lleno de mundo" [His corpse was full of world] (César Vallejo, España, aparta de mí este cáliz, "III")
- "propensiones de trinidad" [propensities for trinity] (César Vallejo, Trilce, "V")
- "¡Ay la llaga en color de ropa antigua, / cómo se entreabre y huele a miel quemada!" [Ay, wound in the color of ancient garb, how it opens just a bit and smells of burnt honey] (César Vallejo, Los heraldos negros, "Absoluta").
- "¡Ah querer, éste, el mío, éste, el mundial, / interhumano y parroquial ... !" [Ah to love, this, mine, this, the world's, interhuman and parochial] (César Vallejo, Poemas humanos)
- "quiero / saber de estar siquiera" [I want at least to know about being here] (César Vallejo, Trilce "XLIX")
- Chapter Six Rosario Castellanos's Freedom
- The Eternal Feminine
- Castellanos-Guerra-Sartre
- Simone-Jean-Paul-Olga
- Castellanos-Beauvoir-Sartre
- Coda: Mexican Mitsein
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.